Alumni Donates Solar Powered Boreholes To Idah Poly
*As Rector pleads for Infrastructural Supports
National Alumni Association of the Federal Polytechnic, Idah, FPI, has donated three sets of solar powered boreholes to the institution located in Kogi State.
The boreholes were commissioned on Thursday by the Rector of the Polytechnic, Dr. Danjuma Baba who called on the Alumni to still help in other infrastructural developmemnt..
Aside the boreholes sunk at the Female, Male and administrative blocks to serves both the students and staffers, the Alumni also renovated some of the taps that have become obsolete and no longer serve the school.
President of the Association and Retired Police Commissioner, Engr. Godwin Omonfoma said government, no matter how dedicated cannot fulfilled all the needs of the school, hence the need for the alumni to Wade in.
Omonfoma said the association owes a call of service to the institution, by contributing their own quota to ensuring that the students who attend the school get the best of education.
“This projects is our way of giving back to the system that produced us. Less than two months ago, presicely on November 2, we came together and said there was a need to give back to the system, and we achieved this. What you see today is the beginning of greater things from the alumni body,” he said.
The association also, lauded the Rector of the Polytechnic for the huge impart he had made expecially in attracting projects to the citadel.
Responding, the Rector, Dr. Danjuma Baba appealed to the alumni of the institution to come to the school aid in the area of infrastructural development.
Dr. Baba urged the alumni to make use of their contacts and relationships to facilitate more developmental projects in the institution.
“The school during my administration has been able to get some physical structures, but we need more. We need more classroom, accelerated equipments for our labs; to meet up our accreditation struggle, and road networks to open up some places.
“We want to do more. We want to make the polytechnic a technical institution vast in ICT. All these required money. We urged the alumni to help us expecially in regards to infrastructures.”
Baba however said he had been able to change the narrative of the schools in terms of capacity building, infrastructural developmemnt,training and retraining of staffs.
“I have been able to attract TETFUND projects to transform the school. I have re-engineer innovation, training and discipline in the school. Our staffs no longer come late to school or abscond before the end of their duties. 13 of our lecturers are presently in USA and one other country, enhancing their capacity.”
The Rector likewise said the school is thinking outside the box in enhancing their Internally Generated Revenue to meet up their financial challenges, ” We have charged the School venture to double their efforts in the Bread, Bottled and watched water production.
“We are thinking of other viable businesses too. We have purchased an industrial machine that produced buckets, plates and other households. The entrepreneur center of the school is poised to make their product commercial.
“We have dealt with people who engage in result forgery, curtained the excesses of staff and presently ranked among the top five polytechnic with diminishing corruption in the last 3 years by the ICPC”.
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