Kwara Poly has potential to be best in Nigeria – Outgoing Rector
By Aminat Babatunde
The outgoing Rector of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Alhaji Mas’ud
Elelu said the institution has the potential to become the best in the
country.
He made the disclosure while speaking at the valedictory session
organised by Women in Technical Education and Employment (WITED) at
the institution’s premises, yesterday.
Elelu appreciated WITED for the honour done him stressing that the
Polytechnic is destined to be among the best in Nigeria
In her remarks, the Coordinator of WITED, Hajia Adijat Aiyelabegan
commended the Rector’s role in promoting the image of the institution
through infrastructural development and prompt payment of workers’
salaries.
According to her, the outgoing Rector has contributed immensely to the
upliftment of the state chapter of WITED.
He listed some of the achievements recorded by the group during
Elelu’s tenure to include, exposure of WITED members both within and
outside the institution.
She added that the Rector also allocated secretariat to the
association within the school auditorium building and another plan to
acquire land for the construction of WITED creche.
Again, Buratai blames soldiers for unending B’ Haram war
The Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, has again lampooned Nigerian
soldiers for allegedly failing to curb Boko Haram and other security
challenges that have dogged the country for so many years.
Buratai accused soldiers of displaying a poor commitment to defend the
country in almost every task they had been assigned, a situation he
described as “unfortunate” and responsible for sparse promotion in the
military rank-and-file.
“It is unfortunate, but the truth is that almost every setback the
Nigeria army has had in our operations in recent times can be traced
to insufficient willingness to perform assigned tasks,” Mr Buratai
said at a military-organised event in Abuja on Tuesday.
The alleged laziness of soldiers could also be traced to “simply
insufficient commitment to a common national/military course by those
at the frontlines,” Buratai was quoted to have said.
His comments came as Nigerian soldiers and commanders were being
killed in the Boko Haram war, which has now entered its 10th year. At
least two lieutenant colonels have lost their lives to Boko Haram
ambush over the past one month, with at least 50 soldiers also killed
and even more missing in action within the same time.
Most of the personnel losses have come from attacks on military bases
in the North-east, a strategic shift that Boko Haram has not backed
down on since launching it last July. Although the insurgents still
occasionally target civilians, invasion of military bases has become
more regular in their brutal campaign.
As President Muhammadu Buhari faced calls to sack his military chiefs
for their alleged incompetence in the face of worsening insecurity,
Buratai has blamed soldiers on the frontlines for the Boko Haram
scourge.
Last August, Buratai tackled military commanders and soldiers in the
Boko Haram war, accusing them of cowardice in a memo obtained by
online medium, Premium Times. The army chief said soldiers were
abandoning their positions in the face of Boko Haram firepower; an act
he said should ordinarily demand court-martial of suspected personnel.