Apex pan Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo, has commended the Minister of Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu, and the Chairman of the Governing Council the Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra state Alhaji Kale Kawu, over the appointment of a substantive Registrar of the institution.
The school management had on Friday approved the appointment of Mr Anthony Umeozor as substantive Registrar of polytechnic.
The polytechnic has been engulfed in internal wrangling over the appointment of a substantive registrar.
This followed the cold war between the management of the institution and the academic and non-academic staff who have continued to demand a Registrar appointed internally from the school.
Similarly the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic ASUP and the Non Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic of the chapters have equally celebrated what they described as the return of due process and peaceful academic environment in the institution.
According to the National Vice President of the Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Damian Okeke Ogene, the appointment is a new dawn for the school.
“We wish to commend the Hon Minister for Education for what he has done by ensuring a level play ground and due process in the appointment of the substantive Registrar.”
“Also we commend the leadership of the new Governing Council led by Alhaji Kale Kawu for ensuring that the right things were done. This would go a long way in putting the institution in the right direction of effective teaching, learning and research.
“The school is in my local government area Orumba North and we have had series of crisis and internal wrangling over leadership and management of the polytechnic which has not helped the institution but with this kind of transparency in the appointment of the new Registrar normalcy has returned to the school,” he said.
Similarly, the President General of Oko People’s Union (OPU), Mr Amaechi Okoli, noted that the transparent free and fair process in appointment of the substantive Registrar was an indication that it would not be business as usual.
