The management of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin (Kwarapoly), has appealed to the state government to assist the institution in terms of adequate funding to make it perform optimally.
Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Wednesday as part of activities for the 29th convocation ceremony of the school, the rector of the polytechnic, Engineer Abdul Jimoh Mohammed, said that the institution was only able to make modest achievements despite the current economic situation of the country and ever-increasing running costs, ranging from staff salaries to other recurrent expenses, because of prudent management of limited resources.
“Like any other institution, the polytechnic has problems with funding”, he said.
The rector, who said that the polytechnic needed a huge sum of money for accreditation of programmes and rehabilitation of ageing infrastructure, called on the state government to come to the aid of the school.
“On accreditation of programmes, quite a huge sum of money, running into millions of Naira, is needed each time the Polytechnic faces accreditation or re-accreditation of its National Diploma and Higher National Diploma programmes
The team from the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has always insisted on meeting the minimum requirements in order to sail through each accreditation exercise. Meeting these requirements is always a serious financial challenge for the institution. I, therefore, appeal to the government to come to the aid of the institution whenever the need arises.
“On ageing structures, many of the buildings in the Polytechnic are very old, as old as the institution
itself. Although renovation takes place from time to time, lack of sufficient funds makes it difficult to carry out comprehensive renovation and rehabilitation of the obsolete structures”, he said.
The rector, however, appreciated the state commissioner, Ministry of Tertiary Education, Dr. (Mrs.) Mary Ronke Arinde, for her support and said that “we felt her impact within a short time of her assumption of office”.
Dr Muhammed, who raised the alarm over the threat to the security of the lives of students and property of the institution over the encroachment of the institution’s land, appealed to Governor Abdulrazaq to come to the aid of the institution so as to avoid any unforeseen situation at the institution.
He said that a total of 8,350 graduates, with 3,000 HND graduates and 5,350 OND graduates, including part-time graduates of the institution, would be graduating during the convocation ceremony.
A total of 102 graduates bagged distinction and upper credit.
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