Abia State Polytechnic Aba Looses Accreditation Over Non Payment Of 30 Months Salary

The National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, has removed the license of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba over no-installment of staff compensations and remittances for more than 30 months.

The Head, Media Department, NBTE, Fatima Abubakar, expressed this in a proclamation gave in Kaduna on Tuesday.

Mr Abubakar said that the license was removed in light of the fact that the polytechnic had not shown any obligation to counterbalance the unpaid debts and guarantee ordinary installment of pay rates.

She made sense of that ordinary installment of pay was one of a critical part of the board's standardizing instruments for quality confirmation in the Polytechnics, Technical, Vocational Education and Training, TVET, foundations.

She additionally said that the board had drawn the consideration of the polytechnic's administration to the perils intrinsic in non-installment of compensations, including the suspension of value affirmation visits.

"The board exceeded everyone's expectations of keeping in touch with Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, illuminating him regarding what is going on of the polytechnic however all without any result.

"It is, in this way, with most extreme awareness of certain expectations that the board has chosen to pull out the authorization status of the polytechnic to shield the quality affirmation component of the board.

"It is additionally to guarantee that understudies are not left helpless before demotivated staff that might fall back on under the table practices to make due," she said.

Mr Abubakar said the board had kept in touch with the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, not to assemble any alumni of the polytechnic for its public assistance until the foundation cures the issue.

The assertion said that the NBTE would inform the NYSC when the certification status was reestablished.

She additionally said the board likewise sent comparative notification of the withdrawal of the license to the Tertiary Education Trust Fund; Industrial Training Fund to stop any authority exchange with the polytechnic.

"Polytechnic owners the nation over are additionally instructed to view standard installment concerning compensations of staff in a serious way as disappointment can prompt loss of certification," Mr Abubakar said.