The Registrar of the College of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Mr. Mansur Adeleke Alfanla, has urged the federal authorities to designate an company to supervise the funds of public universities within the nation.
He argued that having totally different authorities institutions performing this operate, as it’s now, is retrogressive and will trigger inconsistencies of their findings.
Alfanla, in an interview with journalists in Ilorin on the weekend, stated establishing a particular physique for this objective would stave off the inconsistencies that usually come up as a result of divergent positions of the businesses.
“A number of businesses performing monetary oversight capabilities may be very displeasing and retrogressive. If the federal government establishes a centralized physique for that operate, it’ll eradicate the inconsistencies that usually accompany such divergent views.
“One downside is the oversight operate of various businesses performing one singular operate. Actually, it is rather displeasing to have totally different businesses doing that. It’s not too good in any respect. It’s retrogressive and attracts the arms of the clock backward. We have to communicate the reality and the entire world ought to see us.
“We’ve authorities establishments with overlapping capabilities. The Nationwide Meeting will come to look into our monetary books, the Accountant Normal will come, the Auditor Normal will come, the NUC will come, and the Federal Ministry of Schooling will come. That could be a duplication of duties.
“I believe there must be a delegated physique that might be doing this for and on behalf of the federal authorities in order that it is going to be one physique fairly than multiplying such capabilities, which frequently result in inconsistencies.
“These businesses typically have divergent views. What one company acknowledges as executed accurately, one other will say is finished wrongly. So, allow them to give you uniform insurance policies to be monitored by one physique,” he lamented.
Alfanla additionally lamented the dearth of funding for public establishments, saying that one other downside we face is finance.He famous, “Our universities lack funds, however I’m sure issues will enhance.”On the safety state of affairs on the College of Ilorin, he bemoaned the actions of some cattle herders who stray into the campus to destroy crops, farmlands, and different valuables.
“One other problem is the difficulty of safety. We’ve cattle rearers coming into the campus, destroying folks’s property by means of their farmlands. They go there, destroy, and herd their cattle into the farmlands to plunder.
“In actual fact, I used to be as soon as a sufferer. About 5 of us cultivated eight hectares of land for beans. The plantation flourished, however throughout harvest time, these folks got here and destroyed every part with their cattle,” he recalled.
He, nevertheless, expressed dissatisfaction with the prevalence of mind drain in public establishments throughout the nation and urged the federal government to discover a strategy to stem the tide.
He stated, “A part of the challenges we’re having is the difficulty of mind drain. Folks abandon their work and go elsewhere by means of ‘Japa’. It’s affecting not solely the College of Ilorin however many universities in Nigeria, and it’s one thing the federal authorities ought to look into.”
Admitting that the federal government has its share of the blame for the issues, Alfanla urged lecturers to be affected person, saying, “We have to sacrifice for this nation earlier than it could possibly get again heading in the right direction. I’m not saying the federal government doesn’t have its personal share of the blame—it does.
“We don’t have to run elsewhere. These we ran to didn’t name us there. Sadly, these folks go there to construct the financial system of that place, whereas they’re operating down the financial system of Nigeria.”
The Registrar lauded the administration of the College of Ilorin for actively partaking labor unions on the establishment and putting a excessive premium on employees welfare, including that this has led to optimum service supply and uninterrupted educational periods.
He stated, “I need to say the college is kind of blessed at current, and it is rather uncommon to have the form of management we’re having right here on the College of Ilorin anyplace on this planet.
“We have interaction our union leaders, and let me let you know, at instances, even when a strike is asserted nationally, the native department might want to look again and say, ‘Are we going, or are we not going?’ for apparent causes.
“Is there anyplace in Nigeria, in any Nigerian college, the place employees members got a few 25% waiver on their organic kids’s faculty charges? It has by no means been executed anyplace. It began final yr on the College of Ilorin, and we’re sustaining it this yr as effectively—that’s welfare.
“Employees are additionally despatched for numerous types of coaching, regionally and internationally, and naturally, when the management of our unions has points and presents them, we give them a listening ear.
“That’s what is going on. If the federal government is doing that, there might be no person saying, ‘I’m happening strike.”
