Unbelievable! Poly Rector Is OND Graduate

Johnson Babajide, Lokoja - 05.09.2009

THE existence of illegal tertiary institutions has been discovered in Kogi State, with the rector of one of them, Central Polytechnic, in Ankpa area of the state, alleged to possess an Ordinary National Diploma (OND) certificate.

Saturday Tribune gathered that many of the students attending such institutions are oblivious of their illegal status. The proprietor of the said polytechnic is also alleged to be carrying an OND certificate.

According to findings, the student population in the school is no more than 100. According to reports, the lecturers possessed Grade 11 teachers certificates and NCE certificates as well as OND certificates.

Officials the state Ministry of Education, a few weeks ago, stormed some of the schools, sealed them off and launched a manhunt for their proprietors.

Speaking on the issue, the Commissioner for Education, Chief Sylvester Onoja, said about eight of such institutions were existing in the state and some of them had been sealed off.

Onoja gave the names of some of the institutions as Dominion College of Education, Olamaboro; Moonlight Polytechnic, Central Polytechnic, Equitorial College of Education, in Okura Lafia; All States Polytechnic and Idama College of Education, in Iyale.

He promised that the government would move against the others which, he said, were yet to be visited. The commissioner charged parents to be wary of the illegal institutions, saying their graduates were unemployable.