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Fresh Crisis Looms In Osun Tertiary Institutions by Bekwarra(m): 6:58pm On Nov 29, 2015 |
A fresh crisis looms as the state governor, Mr Rauf
Aregbesola, has converted the four tertiary
institutions in the state to vocational institutions and
tutorial centres, as part of his administration’s
restructuring policy.
The affected institutions, namely Osun State College
of Technology, Esa-Oke; Osun State Polytechnic, Iree,
Osun State College of Education, Ilesa and Osun State
College of Education, Ila-orangun have been ordered
not to admit students for the 2015/2016 academic
session.
In the same vein, applicants into the four institutions
have been prevented from writing the post-UTME
examination which they had already paid for.
However, the state deputy governor, Mrs Titi Laoye
Tomori, declared that the state government would
not merge the institutions, but might not admit
students in the next academic session, saying that
“What we are doing is restructuring.”
Following the controversial decision, 14 lecturers of
the Osun State College of Technology, Esa-Oke, were
allegedly arrested by the State Department of
Security Services (DSS) over their condemnation of
the new government policy and removal of the
provost of the institution over his initiation of
admission processes for the 2015/2016 academic
session of the institution.
The lecturers were reportedly taken to Osogbo, the
state capital, for interrogation, after being accused of
threatening the life of one of the institution’s top
shots and sabotaging the government’s policy.
Sources disclosed that the provost of the state
College of Education, Ila-Orangun, Dr .O Gbadamosi,
was allegedly sacked by the governor for flouting the
order restraining the institutions from going ahead
with the admission process, while a professor was
brought from Lagos to take over the mantle of
leadership of the college.
Dr Gbadamosi, Sunday Tribune learnt, had
conducted the post-UTME examination for about
4,000 applicants for the National Certificate in
Education (NCE) programme in October and later
sent the list of the successful candidates to the
JAMB office in Abuja.
Sunday Tribune gathered that about 10, 000
candidates applied to the Osun State Polytechnic,
Iree and the Osun State College of Technology, Esa-
Oke for various courses, but the management of the
institutions could not proceed on the admission for
fear of being sanctioned by the state government.
The governor, Sunday Tribune learnt, had invited the
chairmen and chief executives of the four tertiary
institutions to a meeting where he briefed them on
his plans to proscribe National Diploma and Higher
National Diploma programmes in the polytechnics
and colleges of education.
Governor Aregbesola was said to have mandated the
institutions to embark on remedial and tutorial
programmes for secondary school students who
could not pass their ordinary school certificates,
IJMB, Cambridge Advance Studies and UTME, while
mandating the four institutions to venture into
vocational courses like bricklaying, carpentry, hair
dressing, electrical installation, air conditioning and
refrigeration, shoe making, soap making and
production of disinfectants, which would earn the
artisans a three- month certificate course or a year
diploma programme. The intention is to reduce the
four institutions to two by merging Osun State
Polytechnic Iree with the State College of
Technology, Esa-Oke and Osun State college of
Education Ila Orangun with the Ilesa campus, which
would reduce the management staff and governing
councils.
The development, which had forced the institutions
to be advertising the vocational education and
remedial programmes on various broadcasting
stations in the state, had generated ripples within the
host communities, as monarchs and community
leaders had paid courtesy visits to the governor to
rescind his decision, but to no avail.
The chairmen of the two polytechnics, Mrs Olu
Maduka and Professor Fagbenle had vowed to turn in
their resignation letters if the governor insisted on
proscription of admission for all categories of
students in the schools, saying the policy could
tarnish their image.
Meanwhile, a group, Concerned Parents of
Applicants into the institutions, has indicated its plan
to sue the State government and authorities of the
Institutions for what it described as “fraudulent acts
of the institutions to sell POST UTME and NCE and
HND forms to the applicants without offering them
the admission, while those who also went through
the preliminary programmes in the 2014/2015
session may not also be allowed to proceed to the
regular course.
A parent who spoke with Sunday Tribune said: “The
state government ought to have written JAMB since
two years ago to remove its institutions from the
brochure. By this, our wards wouldn’t have chosen
the institutions. At the appropriate time, we shall take
them to the court.” tribuneonlineng.com/fresh-crisis-looms-in-osun-tertiary-institutions |
Re: Fresh Crisis Looms In Osun Tertiary Institutions by tafabaloo(m): 6:58pm On Nov 29, 2015 |
These are indeed Indications of a failed state brought about by mismanagement of human and material resources by the so called OGBENI . I sometimes wondered how the state of the living spring came to where it is today..... Besides, I'm ashamed to call this profligate my governor |
Re: Fresh Crisis Looms In Osun Tertiary Institutions by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 6:59pm On Nov 29, 2015 |
odourless fufu governor with fufu brain. 1 Like |
Re: Fresh Crisis Looms In Osun Tertiary Institutions by jesse8048(m): 7:18pm On Nov 29, 2015 |
Lol, But I thought d IGR from Osun is more than what's obtainable in the 5 south eastern states? |
Re: Fresh Crisis Looms In Osun Tertiary Institutions by masinga07(m): 7:19pm On Nov 29, 2015 |
Any thing that has to do with APC is a disaster. |
Re: Fresh Crisis Looms In Osun Tertiary Institutions by djlawex02(m): 8:47pm On Nov 29, 2015 |
They should just loan that state to manchester united. |
Re: Fresh Crisis Looms In Osun Tertiary Institutions by Bekwarra(m): 8:48pm On Nov 29, 2015 |
I've seen political office holders with some really dumb and unfathomable moves but this one from my state governor is from the top drawer. Just imagine this: Me: Kamoru how far Kamoru: I dey egbon Me: Your mummy tell me say you don gain admission Kamoru: yesso egbon na God o Me: which school? Kamoru: Osun State Polytechnic Iree Me: nice that's good. Which course? Kamoru: bricklaying Me: *faints* |
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