Unions Kick As Rector Denies Using Soldiers To Supervise Exams

Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) astatine the Federal Polytechnic, Bida and the National Association of Polytechnic Students, (NAPS) Senate limb person kicked against the usage of mercenaries to behaviour the ongoing 2nd semester introspection pursuing the concern enactment embarked upon by the lecturers.
LEADERSHIP findings revealed that the polytechnic absorption went up to behaviour the end-of-semester introspection contempt the lecturers‘ strike, who are demanding the outgo of their allowances allegedly withheld.

The ASUP Bida president Kolo Joshua has warned that the planned usage of mercenaries to behaviour the introspection volition not beryllium accepted by his striking members.

He said successful a connection that „ The union‘s attraction has been drawn to an alleged program to import mercenaries for invigilation of examinations astir which they cognize small oregon nothing“.

It is important to pass the nationalist that our members volition not judge oregon people immoderate booklet not supervised by our members and volition not instrumentality work for immoderate infractions resulting from specified examinations. As an world union, we are committed to maintaining precocious standards of introspection questions and ensuring the due behaviour of examinations,“ the ASUP president declared.

He said, “ASUP Bida members connected the Academic Board cannot and volition not judge thing little than the accustomed precocious standards we are known for portion advising members to enactment distant from specified examinations, „ particularly fixed the antagonistic information study advisory issued by management.

Similarly the NAPS president Oyewumi Festus Ayomide and the clerk Jimoh Ibrahim alleged that the polytechnic absorption has ordered deployment of subject unit to behaviour examination.
The connection stated that the Polytechnic Students‘ Senate condemned „in its entirety the caller enactment of the Rector of Federal Polytechnic Bida, who ordered the deployment of equipped soldiers to invigilate introspection wrong the instauration „.

In his absorption the rector of the polytechnic, Engineer Baba Aliyu told LEADERSHIP that it was not existent that soldiers were deployed to invigilate the examination.

He said, „How tin 1 ideate that soldiers volition beryllium deployed to invigilate examinations and the students volition let it?“

While acknowledging the lecturers‘ request for unpaid allowances, helium said a assembly committee was acceptable up to analyse their demands for imaginable reconciliation.