HINT ON IMOPOLY RELOCATION SAGA! Governor Rochas Okorocha’s determination to convert Imo Polytechnic, Umuagwo into the main campus and permanent site of the institution is hitting brick walls following the refusal of the people of Ohaji/Egbema LGA who are the landowners of the institution. Already, a number of groups and youth organisations in the area have sworn that such arrangement would not be allowed to exist in the institution as they fear that it was a clear indication of marginalising the people out of the scheme of things in the state. Education Post however gathered that stakeholders from the Council Area have seriously opposed the game-plan while declaring that “it is part of this administration’s hidden agenda to annihilate the people of Ohaji/Egbema under ‘Rescue Mission’ arrangement”. Grapevine information reaching Education Post confirms that lots of nocturnal meetings have been going on in the area, to ensure that the government would not carry out its plans successfully, even as the youths have challenged the Okorocha administration to rescind its decision or relocate the polytechnic from there and leave their land. Education Post recalls that the governor had hinted a few months ago that the institution would assume a multi-campus status. The governor had disclosed then that the School of Engineering and Environmental Services would be taken to Technological Skills Acquisition Centre (TSAC), Orlu as part of the campus and that the Business School would be integrated into the Cooperative College, Nsu in Ehime Mbano LGA. Also Ikeduru LGA according to him, would be accommodating a school, while only the School of Agriculture would be retained at the main campus. According to the information reaching our news desk, the stakeholders in Ohaji/Egbema are standing their grounds that the government was wrong in its current move to make Imo Poly a multi-campus institution, hence “Imo State Polytechnic has no law approving a multi-campus system and no amendment to the 2007 law that established the institution” till date. The Public Relations Officer of the institution, Julie Nwokeke, in a telephone interview, explained that the issue of the institution being made a multi-campus one could not be untrue as the governor had earlier disclosed. She stated that it would be difficult for the Engineering Department of the institution to be accredited due to lack of operational facilities, whereas they exist more in TSAC, Orlu, amongst other considerations of the government in taking such decision of a multi-campus system. Some graduates of the institution in a brief chat confided in Education Post that the governor’s decision would augur well for the students of the institution, adding that during their own time, they studied more of theories than practical courses due to lack of facilities to demonstrate what they were taught. But an indigene of Ohaji/Egbema who could not disclose his identity ,said, the governor would be given enough land should he have need for it, instead of removing the relevant departments from the institution.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 07:54:46 +0000
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