From Princely Onyenwe
This controversy has continued to linger but the truth of the matter is that Federal Polytechnic Nekede Owerri is being run by it’s management and school fees is part of the internally generated revenue to keep the school moving. Therefore payment of school fees is sacrosanct while pleading with the students to understand this fact and obey the rules of the institution as reported by 9News Nigeria.
Following series of Newspaper reports and media war against the payment of school fees before exam date, student groups from Federal Polytechnic Nekede Owerri Imo state have called on the management of Federal Polytechnic Nekede to hear their cries and allow the first semester exams to be completed.
This was in line with the recent communique issued by Federal Polytechnic Nekede for students to pay school fees before sitting for their scheduled examination.
The SUG and affiliate student groups have issued several alarm notice to various agencies of government to come and rescue them to avert looming war in the school mostly at this time the state is facing critical security issues.
The original copies of their write-ups is attached in this publication as this:
Smart Campus Info Hub/IMO student movement.
A cry to the DSS,EFCC and Human Right Activist.
Regarding to the just released memo from the SUG.I the leading council of Smart Campus Info Hub CEO cum Imo Student Movement president urge the above body to please step into this case of “No school fees No exam” ravaging the mind of student in federal poly nekede.
I suggest that the fees should be scrutinized and adequate measure should be taken to enable student write first semester exam in peace and not in pieces and let the CBT continue from second semester.
We as a student body jointly with the students union government SUG is Saying no to Violence.
Together we shall make Fedponek great again. Please, hear our humble please, Fedponek management.
Courtesy
IMO Student Movement/Smart Campus Info Hub
Another letter from the SUG is attached herein for clarification:
In a related development, FEDDPONEK GAZETTE in their recent report stated that Polytechnic Nekede will commence her First Semester Exam July 4 and that students must pay their outstanding fees in order to sit for the examinations.
Federal Polytechnic Nekede is set to commence her first semester 2022/2023 exams on July 4, 2023. In a memo FPN/R/82/V/119 dated June 12, 2023, the Registrar of the institution, Mrs. E. C. Anuna, informed the Polytechnic Community that the new date was to enable students pay their outstanding fees in order to sit for the examinations.
The memo reads in part: “Following from the above, we wish to inform the Polytechnic Community and the students that the examinations scheduled to commence on Tuesday 20th June, 2023 have been shifted for additional two (2) weeks making a total of three (3) weeks extension.”
From all indications, there may be no going back on the new date because the Polytechnic is determined to commence its second semester as soon as the first semester exams are over. Also, the institution is set to organize a combined Convocation very soon.
Meanwhile, some alumni of the institution have hailed the Rector and his Management team for being so compassionate with the students to the extent of granting them a three-week exam extension. For them, this is a great sacrifice because Management would have to shelve the programmes of the Polytechnic which had long been scheduled in the Calendar of the institution. They, therefore, enjoined students to take advantage of the window offered them to pay their fees.
Some alumni members have also argued that parents have an obligation to pay their wards’ fees at not later than two weeks of resumption. They decry a situation where after four months in a semester, this obligation has still not been met.
It will be recalled that the cost of maintaining essential services in Nigerian tertiary institutions is substantially borne by the latter. A tanker of diesel which used to cost N12M before now costs over N32M, just as the costs of other services have skyrocketed. Yet, the institution is expected to generate power and run essential services.
The controversy has continued but the truth of the matter is that Federal Polytechnic Nekede is being run by it’s management and school fees is part of the internally generated revenue to keep the school moving. Payment of school fees is sacrosanct while pleading with the students to understand this fact and obey the rules of the institution as reported by 9News Nigeria.
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