NAPS Demands The Immediate Replacement Of Kadpoly’s Rector (AG)

“The man dies in him who keeps mute in the face of injustice”---Wole Soyinka

The need for a substantive rector in KADPOLY became obvious to all, just as the unjustifiable hundred percent school fees increment surfaced from an administration of less than six months in office. The Rector (Ag) shot herself repeatedly by thinking it’s phenomenal to make business from the opportunity presented to her to head the institution while a substantive rector is appointed.

School fees increment should come at reasonable intervals with justifiable reasons when the need arises, the idea of increasing school fees annually by fifty to hundred percent is nothing but fraud, corruption and abuse of office. The dream to believe fees increment can be forced on students is inhumanity and callousness, students as a key stakeholder should be consulted and dully represented on the floor where an increase in school fees is to be taken, as anything short of this calls for investigation.

Playing dangerous politics to secure confirmation of office and sailing through the unjust school fees increment is an indication of an incompetent hand at the helm of affairs. Contracting Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) for image polishing, dividing students voice on agitations, buying weak comrades with finance and intimidating of strong ones symbolizes reign of tyrant.

It becomes the tradition of KADPOLY to suffer setbacks when there comes a need for change in leadership, Rectors in acting capacities are mostly infected with the get rich quick syndrome therefore resulting to one crisis or the other. Plans to make enough profits in no time fuels the exploitation of students in disguise of school fees increment, making education a debt sentence for its seekers and turning deaf ears to the yearnings of the commoners.

The leadership of National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) calls on the federal government to investigate the recent happenings in KADPOLY in other to save our carrier from derailment delay and halt as proposed by the rector through the school fees increment. We solemnly request the timely intervention of the federal government in restructuring wrongs, reversal of the hike school fees and appointment of a substantive rector, considering the adverse effects of students matching to the streets to express dissatisfaction in a volatile environment like Tundun-Wada area of Kaduna State.

We are keen on this struggle and will never take a No for a Yes, it’s our prayer that the federal government see reasons early enough to replace the Rector (Ag) as obviously the ideology to lift the institution to greater height still lags. KADPOLY’s administration is far more than leadership training ground, the school is one of the prides of polytechnic education in Nigeria and our arms won’t be fold while it’s been ruined.

Signed
Comr Olugbode Damola H
NAPS National PRO (08068360731)