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.”

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