The
Ogun State Government has announced that the National Board for
Technical Education and the Joint Admissions And Matriculation Board
have granted full approval for the take-off of academic activities at
the Ogun State Polytechnic, Ipokia, with immediate effect.
This
was contained in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State
Government, Taiwo Adeoluwa, a copy of which was made available to our
correspondent.
The
statement read in part, “Following several inspection visits to the
site of the polytechnic, we are delighted to report that the National
Board for Technical Education has granted accreditation to the Ogun
State Polytechnic, Ipokia, to commence academic activities in 18
programmmes
“In
a related development, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
also announced the opening of its portals for prospective students to
enable them to register for courses at the Ogun State Polytechnic,
Ipokia for the 2017/2018 academic session.
“This
development further confirms government’s position that the
interest and welfare of all students of its various institutions, as
well as that of their parents, is paramount and will always be
accorded a pride of place by our government.
“We
are confident that normalcy will return to these institutions very
shortly.
“For
the benefit of all stakeholders, we like to state that the crisis
arose in the first place from the refusal of the lecturers to call
off their strike.
“Among
their demands is that government must pay them full salaries
including the months they did not work on account of an illegal and
totally unwarranted work to rule action.
“For
the avoidance of doubt, government restates that no one will be paid
for work not done. And no one will be allowed to hold the good people
of Ogun State to ransom.
“We
call on our students to immediately return to their classes, as we
continue to work round the clock to resolve other outstanding
issues.”
It
would be recalled that some students of the Moshood Abiola
Polytechnic, Abeokuta, had two weeks ago staged a protest and marched
to the Governor’s Office to express their concerns over the delay
in the commencement of their second semester examinations.
The
protest, tagged ‘Black Week’, was eventually quelled by the
police.
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