Coalition urges VCs, Rectors to Emulalte Oko Management.
John Oba, Abuja
Oko Polytechnic, a pace setter – CCSG
Coalition of Civil Society Groups, (CCSG) has called on the leaderships of various institutions to emulate the achievement of the management of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State so as to grow the efficiency and accountability rate of good governance in Nigeria institutions.
The coalition at a press conference yesterday in Abuja said it unscheduled visit to the polytechnics as part of it assessment tour of Nigeria institutions in the last one year revealed that it management led by Prof. Godwin Onu has proved that Nigeria institutions can still achieved their mandate despite the lean resources.
Speaking, the president of the coalition, Comrade Etuk Bassey William, said the management of the polytechnic has shown prudency with resource at its disposal with the level of achievement it has recorded in the last few years.
He said the independent assessment and evaluation of public office holders of the group is a normal routine to check the excesses of people in government so as to enhance transparency and accountability in government.
Adding it visit to the school was part of it mandate to ensure that quality and standard is guarantee in the educational sector.
He said: “Our visit to Oko is the sixth in the series of tours, and it is our culture to address the press after each assessment tour as a way of encouraging those that are doing well and to call those who are find wanting to order, because we are not here to praise sing anybody or witch-hunt anybody.
“Our findings in Oko are heartwarming. It is not a story of condemnation but commendations because we discover that the administrative effectiveness in the internally generated Revenue (IGR) which has been judiciously use to build infrastructures in the institution.
“And we enjoin other chief executives to borrow lessons from the rector as to grow the efficiency and accountability rate of good governance in Nigeria. Because what we find there shows that the polytechnic can compete with any in the world. With the Introduction of electronic examination to stop malpractice and several structural developments that are completed, we wish others will learn from the rector,” he said.
He therefore went further to read out the list of achievements while urging the management of the polytechnic not to relent and to ensure that it consolidate it efforts at placing the school among the first two in the country.
