Reps Panel Stops Sale Of Kaduna Polytechnic Property

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Assets has asked the management of Kaduna Polytechnic, the Ministry of Education and the Presidential Implementation Committee on government property to stop forthwith, the sale of the federal tertiary institution’s property.

This followed the consideration of a petition to the House by some serving and retired staff members of the polytechnic by the committee.

The committee further summoned the rector of the polytechnic, Dr Suleiman Umar, permanent secretary Ministry of Education and Head of Presidential Implementation Committee, comprising the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics, Kaduna Polytechnic chapters to an investigative hearing.
The committee’s chairman, Hon. Ademorin Kuye (APC, Lagos) said the specific date, time and venue for their appearance would be communicated to the affected officials and groups.

The polytechnic staff had in a petition addressed to Speaker Abbas Tajudeen accused the management of the Polytechnic of carrying out illegal action by carving out parts of their plots of land and selling them to non-staff of the institution without remitting the money to the government account.

They also claimed that most of the teaching and non-teaching staff of the polytechnic are not aware of the sale of the houses and plots of land owned by the institution.

The panel therefore directed that further allocations of plots of land and staff quarters of the Polytechnic to non-staff of the school be stopped, pending the conclusion of investigation into the matter.