SPONSORED ARTICLE: FedPoly Ayede: Open letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu by Concerned Indigenes of Ogbomosoland
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The Concerned Indigenes on behalf of all sons and daughters of Ogbomoso community will like to appeal to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to reconsider the appointment of Principal Officers of the Federal Polytechnic, Ayede, Ogbomoso.
Your Excellency, the Minister of Education wrote a letter recently directing the Governing Council of the institution to replace vacant positions with home grown officers, that is from the same institution as Rector, Registrar and Bursar. Shockingly, none of them is from the host community – Ogbomoso.
However, we view this very position of the Minister as totally against the spirit of fairness, equity and justice. The Minister of Education acted against the interest of the host community and Oyo State in general by not considering anyone from the environment for any major appointment in the institution.
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Though the institution is a federal school, it is sited in our community to boost our economy and develop our human capacity. The Minister therefore failed in his responsibility to ensure the interests of the host community is well protected by illegally and tactically approving the appointments of three individuals from the Federal Polytechnic Ede to lord themselves over our community.
Mr. President, several institutions were established in recent times and most of those institutions are being headed by the indigenes of the host communities, it is quite surprising that the Honourable Minister of Education has decided to compromise competent individuals within our community to protect the interests of his cronies.
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Ogbomoso community will not succumb to this malicious act of injustice of the Honourable Minister who has failed to act on several allegations of financial infractions against the former Rector up till this moment. The entire Ogbomoso community hereby appeals to the President to as a matter of urgency see to the following:
1) Setting up a fact-finding committee to examine the financial activities of the institution from 2021 till date.
2) Ordering a fresh exercise for the appointment of the Principal Officers.
3) Immediate removal of
- Chief Matthew O. Adesanya
- Chief Mrs. Monisola A. T’ẹgbẹ
iii. Alhaji Aminu Bala Sokoto
- Alhaji Mosu Goba Mintar from the Governing Council of the institution.
4) Set up a Panel to investigate all contracts that have been awarded since 2022.
5) Completion of the permanent site of the institution with the access roads.
Signed
Prof Wahab Kola Ahmed
Chairman
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