The national body of the Alumni association of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti has called on the Federal Government to provide adequate, and modern equipments to the Polytechnic for it to produce high quality graduates. The President of the association, Dr Oyedokun Abiodun,madevtgus call after donating a sum of N5million to the institution, as relief package to cushioning the effect of the recent rainstorms disaster. Dr Oyedokun, who lamented the large scale destruction of the institution’s property by the rainstorm said the donation was the association’s widow’s mite to support the management.
Oyedokun used the occasion to appreciate the alumni chapters in Rivers, Delta, FCT, Lagos, Oyo, Ekiti and Europe for their financial supports as he appealed to some members who had made promises to redeem their pledges . He said the institution had already acknowledged receipt of the said N5m, and at the same time, we still want the whole world to know about the problem in the polytechnic”. The president, called on governments at all levels, to see polytechnic education, as the only leeway, towards the desired progress and development, for the country.
” In April this year, the alumni association, received the sad news of the havoc, done by the torrential rainfall on the school premises. ” Our independent investigations hasve revealed that the damage done to properties, runs into several millions of Naira, but we thank God that the various reports we got, did not include.
