- Gani Ogundahunsi, the Acting Rector of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo (RUGIPO) has stated that the governing council of the institution did not not sack any member of staff of the polytechnic’s staff school.
Gani Ogundahunsi, the Acting Rector of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo (RUGIPO) has stated that the governing council of the institution did not not sack any member of staff of the polytechnic’s staff school.
Addressing journalists in Owo over the development, Ogundahunsi emphasized that the governing council only embarked on the “re-engineering” of the staff school.
The Acting Rector noted that out of the 49 members of staff, the polytechnic only recalled 17 affected workers to the polytechnic’s mainstream service, while the fate of the 42 others will be decided by the new owners of the staff school which comprised both primary and secondary school.
He also reiterated that the running cost of the staff school is no longer feasible, hence its total privatization.
His words: The polytechnic’s staff school has been privatized. The cost of running the school is unsustainable.
“For the primary section of the school, N5 million comes in as revenue whereas we spend N17 million to run it annually, while N49 million was used to finance the secondary section every year as against the N14 million generated.
“Out of the 59 workers of the staff school, 17 of them who were centrally deployed will return to the polytechnic’s mainstream.”
