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Aregbesola Is Hell-bent On Ruining This State!!! by Muzikluva(m): 7:18am On Dec 04, 2015 |
Fresh crisis looms in Osun State
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 the2015/2016 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 rippleswithin the
host communities, as monarchsand 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 categoriesof 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 the2014/2015 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 havewritten 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.” |
Re: Aregbesola Is Hell-bent On Ruining This State!!! by Nobody: 9:30am On Dec 04, 2015 |
oga put sauce there |
Re: Aregbesola Is Hell-bent On Ruining This State!!! by Muzikluva(m): 1:24pm On Dec 04, 2015 |
phantonce:seasoning nko? Lol |
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