Abia Polytechnic Denies Charging High Fees, Says It’ll Establish Printing Press, Bread Factory, Others To Increase IGR

The management of Abia State Polytechnic Aba has denied charging high cost of school fees to students of the institution, urging the public to ignore the report.

The Polytechnic also denied as untrue the report that its students are not being mobilised for the compulsory NYSC programme, as well as not having qualified teachers for academic activities, insisting there is no truth in such.

Addressing newsmen on Friday, Rector of the Polytechnic, Professor Okorie Kalu Osonwa while stating that Abia Polytechnic is among the tertiary institutions in the country charging a very low fee added that it has deviced other means to increase Internally Generated Revenue, IGR including developing a road map for the establishment of Printing Press, Microfinance Bank and a Bread factory which he said will benefit the public as well as serve as an instrument of fund raising for the institution.

Prof. Osonwa also expressed gratitude to the state governor, Okezie Ikpeazu for assisting the school with subvention which he said has helped in the operation of the school.

He said that the Institution pays salaries of workers with Internally Generated Revenue and subvention given to the Institution by the State Government, stating that the tuition of the students which is about N53,150 per section can only pay two months salary of staff, adding that this is reason behind the Polytechnic’s move to raise its income capacity.

He emphasized that after 17 years of existence, the citadel of learning is poised to continue to enhance knowledge as well as produce sound graduates and technologists that can meet the technological needs of the state and the nation at large.

He said since he resumed office on September 2020, he has enjoyed massive support from Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, acknowledging also that members of management staff have assisted in tackling issues such as lateness of results, internet accessibility, handout and making textbook compulsory, stressing that these measures are geared towards making teaching and.learning easy for Lecturers and students.

Prof Osonwa said the Polytechnic achieved 99% of accreditation for all the programmes during the first exercise, emphasizing that during the second batch of accreditation which was done on the 22nd of March till the 26th of March 2022, the Institution recorded success, informing that the team expressed happiness with what they met on ground.

He enjoined the public to disregard any form of negative report about the institution.