REVEALED: What Really Happened During NANS Visit With Gov. Akeredolu (See Details Here)

Posted by E.L.E.X on May 08 2019 under News

Special Assistant on Youth and Students Affairs to Mr Governor, Mr Banji Adewumi has Finally Cleared the air on what really happened during the Union Body meeting with Mr. Governor which has caused a lot of mixed Reactions on the net.

Here’s the Communique Released Below:

Our attention has been drawn to a statement credited to the President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Bamidele Danielson Akpan wherein a supposed detail of meeting of the students body with the governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu was contained.
As the Special Assistant to the Governor on Youth and Student affairs who was also part of the meeting, the meeting was facilitated by the student body even though the notice of the meeting got to the Governor less than twenty four hours before it held.
The Governor, however, did not leverage on the late notice to ignore meeting with the students, a meeting that extended into the latter part of the day.
Despite a less-than-twenty-four hours notice to the Governor seeking a meeting with him, the Governor obliged and he, the President of the student body, Bamidele, sought a personal audience with the governor which was granted and for about thirty minutes engaged the Governor in a personal conversation before craving the indulgence of the Governor to beckon on his colleagues who are student leaders from other institutions.
To say the the Governor ordered to ”flush them out” is contradicting and misleading!
Altogether, it was a productive and robust discussion.
The Governor stated that the decision to increase or reduce the school fees of tertiary institutions in the state rests on the recommendation of the governing council of the institution.
For instance, the governing board in Rufus Giwa Polytechnic already set up a committee to review the tuition fee in the institution and the state government is expecting a recommendation that will guide its decisions.
Perhaps, the docorum of the atmosphere was against the expectation of the students, they suddenly were displeased.
Having observed that the students were turning away the serenity of the discussion, the Governor requested that the discussion be stopped.
However, it is note worthy that the present day government of Ondo state has not only sustained policies to better the lives of the citizens, it has also improved on them to restore the state back to its leadership status in education.
Basic education in the state has been free and has remained so while the free shuttle programme has also been sustained.
Recall an education summit of all stakeholders that held last year.
Consequent of the recommendations of the summit, the state government took decisions to reposition the education sector in the state.
One of such recommendations was the conversion of Ondo State School of Nursing and Midwives, Akure to a faculty under University of Medical Sciences.
Be reminded that over 500 primary schools across the state have undergone renovation while another batch of 300 will commence soon.
It is also pertinent to state that tertiary institutions (Rufus Giwa Polytechnic for instance) have enjoyed subvention and intervention fund beyond what they used to have in the past, against the position that there has been ”drastic reduction of allocations by over 60% to state owned tertiary institutions”.
The government will continually engage stakeholders, especially the students whose future hangs around policies and decisions of government.
The students remain an integral part of our development as a state and we can’t just blow away the chance of giving them the needed support that will help them compete in a globally competitive world.
Olabanji Adewumi
Special Assistant on Youth and Students Affairs

REVEALED: What Really Happened During NANS Visit With Gov. Akeredolu (See Details Here)

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