The Educational Employees Union of Polytechnic (ASUP), Kaduna Polytechnic Chapter, has condemned the sale of the tertiary establishment’s properties value billions of naira by the administration with out remitting the proceeds into the federal authorities account.
In addition to, it could be recalled that the lecturers petitioned the Home of Representatives over the alleged fraud surrounding the gross sales of the polytechnic employees homes, carving out lands to people in Kaduna with out paying the income generated into the Authorities purse, just for the cash to be paid into personal accounts.
The Rector, Suleiman Umar, nevertheless, final Friday advised Journalists that the Administration has efficiently defended itself earlier than the lawmakers and won’t punish the employees for petitioning the Home of Representatives.
Nonetheless, the ASUP Chapter Chairman, Abubakar Jibrin Abdullahi, who reacted to the face-off between the lecturers and Administration on Tuesday, stated that “ASUP is towards the gross sales of Kaduna Polytechnic institutional properties be it inside or exterior the establishment.”
Going via information, he stated that at an emergency Congress assembly held on sixth December 2022, the Congress resolved that Kadpoly institutional properties shouldn’t be bought “now or sooner or later.”
In line with him, in 2011, some employees residents within the Quarters wished a scenario the place they got the homes as lease, however Former Minister of Housing and City Growth, Mrs Amma Peppe, visited the establishment once I was the Basic Secretary then and got here up with a place in clear phrases that Kaduna Polytechnic institutional properties inside or exterior the establishment will not be on the market now or sooner or later.”
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“And that it was meant for growth and for future growth for the era but unborn. The administration then circulated within the Establishment e-newsletter.”
Nonetheless, Abdullahi lamented that “this time round, the administration and a few of the employees resident within the Quarters wished to defraud the establishment from its asset underneath the pretest of Monetization coverage of 2005 Lagos Nigeria.”
He stated, “The Union rose and rejected it, through a letter to the Honourable Minister of Training. The perm sec then replied through a letter dated twentieth January 2023 that the properties usually are not on the market or lease.
“The identical administration circulated a letter Dated twenty sixth January 2023 to all employees to conform. Sadly, each the administration and people resident within the quarters didn’t respect the directives so the Union took the matter to the Federal excessive court docket in KADUNA towards the administration, Authorities Council, Presidential Implementation Committee (PIC), Lawyer common of the federation, and so forth.”
He argued that the state of affairs now surrounding the sale of the polytechnic properties was a calculated try by each events to defraud the establishment from its belongings.
“To one of the best of our information, Solely Mr President has the ability to lease or promote FGN properties, sadly, the administration couldn’t present a letter from then President Mohammed Buhari the place he signed and gave the PIC underneath the workplace of the SGF to promote Kadpoly institutional properties.
“Each the Union and members of the residents took the matter to NASS for justice. Sadly, we’re on flight temper and pressure is mounting between a few of our employees and outsiders on one hand, and in addition between people who have been ejected within the quarters and denied from the shopping for. And likewise administration of the establishment,” the ASUP Chapter Chairman added.
