The Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday, raised the alarm over the imminent collapse of the state-owned polytechnic, the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo (RUPIGO).
The party in a statement signed by its spokesman, Kennedy Peretei, said the present administration in the state has turned the school into a ghost of itself, saying the Rotimi Akeredolu led administration in the state has ruined all institutions he inherited in the state.
Peretei said the state government for no good reason” closed down the Polytechnic’s Staff School which had been operating for more than 25 years while the staff and students were left in the cold.
Peretei alleged that subventions to the school had been reduced while the school kept recruiting new staff from the governor and his aides.
He said: “Workers have not been promoted in the last three years. Even jobs that are awarded by TETFUND are hijacked by the governor’s cronies. The entire place has been reduced to something near hell.
“As it stands, the school has more staff than students because of an increase in school fees, which students cannot afford.
“On Monday, 1st November 2021, students of the school blocked the convoy of the governor, displaying placards with various inscriptions, appealing to the governor to pay the arrears of the polytechnic staff salaries that are more than ten months. How does the governor expect these workers to feed their families?
“The woes that have accompanied Akeredolu’s misrule are endless and the people are suffocating daily.”
While reacting, the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Donald Ojogo, said the PDP had failed in its role as a watchdog by forgetting that it was the immediate past PDP administration that sacked over 30 workers of RUPIGO.
He said the PDP administration killed the institution by owing over 13 months’ salaries spanning from 2010 and recalled that three of such sacked workers died while Akeredolu reinstated the sacked workers and said, “the good people of Ondo are not suffering from amnesia as the PDP strives to make them seem.
“There was no subvention to that school and others, including Rufus Giwa Polytechnic except AAU, Akungba simply because a governor’s brother was at the helm of affairs.
“We can recall with pains how the last PDP administration deliberately killed tertiary education to the extent that a former vice-chancellor had to resign his appointment in protest that Mimiko starved the school of funds.
“The situation was not different in all other tertiary schools until we came on board. They were rather, the killers of tertiary education in the state before we came on board.
“There could not have been a better way to kill a sector than the non-accreditation of all courses in a so-called medical university, then.”
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