Esan Leader kicks against balkanization of Ambrose Alli University

By DADA AYOKHAI
An opinion Leader in Esan Iand   Elder, High Chief (Dr) Patrick Agbator (JP), said the proposed balkanization of Ambrose Alli university Ekpoma by the Obaseki administration is an unfair way to pay back loyalty by the people of Edo central Senatorial district known in the local parlance as Esan people, the host Community to the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma,.

 Governor Godwin Obaseki had  during an  Education Policy Town Hall Meeting in benin  said the state government will convert the state owned University to a multi campus Institution with campuses in other two Senatorial district of the state.

The highly reverend Esan Leader while urging the government to revisit the policy, said the Esan are against the state government decision to convert the university  to a multi campus Institution.

He said the attempts  to bifurcate the  University into a multi-campus institution  is a hidden agenda as a first step to closed down  the university because the policy might lead to  unrest and other attendant reasons  as concerned stakeholders and students are likely to protest the unpopular policy which is at best retrogressive.

According to the High chief, Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma has been lying postrate due to reduction  in  the monthly subvention to the institution by the state government giving rise to many  attendant negative multiplier effects on teaching, learning and research and payment of salaries .

High chief Agbator  lamented that
" It is most unfortunate that the Edo State Governor has chosen to pay Esan people with the planned dismemberment of the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma for the massive support Esan people gave him during the run up to the 2020 governorship election and for overwhelmingly voting him on the day of that election".,

" I passionately appeal to the Governor to spare Edo State the needless expenditure that would be involved in the balkanization of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma into a multi-campus institution and channel the funds earmarked for the exercise into the university to provide needed equipment, pay staff outstanding salaries and personal emoluments, provide equipment for the accreditation of the faculty of medicine which has been withdrawn by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN for failure to provide the required equipment." he said



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