NBTE Withdraws Abia State Polytechnic's Accreditation, Bars it from NYSC Mobilisation

 

Alt: = "Okezie Ikpeazu and Abia State Polytechnic's Gate"

National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has suspended the accreditation of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, for failing to pay staff salaries and allowances for over 30 months.

This was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by the NBTE spokesperson, Fatima Abubakar.

The board  said the withdrawal of the accreditation  was as a result of the  polytechnic’s failure to show any commitment to offset the arrears and ensure regular payment of salaries.

Ms Abubakar stressed that the continued withholding of workers salaries will effect the quality of academic activities and the withdrawal of the accreditation is a quality assurance mechanism.

“It is, therefore, with utmost sense of responsibility that the board has decided to withdraw the accreditation status of the polytechnic to safeguard the quality assurance mechanism of the board,” Ms Abubakar said.

NBTE accused the governing council and management of the school of making several failed promises to settle the backlog of salary arrears.

NBTE official  also said  that the board had drawn the attention of Abia State government to the consequences of failing to pay salaries, including the suspension of quality assurance visits.

“The board went the extra mile of writing to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state, informing him of the dire situation of the polytechnic, but all to no avail,” she added.

She explained that regular salary payment was a key component of the board’s normative instruments for quality assurance in the polytechnics, technical, vocational education and training (TVET) institutions.

Ms Abubakar added that the board had written to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to suspend mobilisation of any graduates of the polytechnic to camp.

The board equally sent a similar notice of the withdrawal of the accreditation to the Tertiary Education Trust Fund and Industrial Training Fund to exclude the polytechnic from their programmes.

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