Date: 2014-07-20

Tertiary institutions in Kwara State have been charged to strengthen their revenue drive and harness available resources within their capacity to reduce their dependence on government.

The Senior Special Assistant to the Kwara State Governor on Parastatals Monitoring and Compliance, Alhaji Mahmud Babatunde Ajeigbe, gave the charge when he led his team on a courtesy visit to the Management of the College of Health Technology, Offa and College of Education, Oro.

Alhaji Ajeigbe, noted that there are areas untapped by the institutions that could boost their revenue and urged them to make effective use of their resources by stimulating ideas that would lead to positive growth of their various institutions.

He called for reappraisal of doing things with a view to repositioning them by improving their infrastructure and necessary tools needed for growth.

Alhaji Ajeigbe assured them of continued support of the state government by repositioning the institutions to enable them achieve the core mandates of setting them up.

In his Remarks, the Provost, College of Health Technology, Offa, Alhaji Sheu Ajide, said the institution was established in 1976 with the mandate of producing manpower for primary healthcare with ten departments for training different cadres in the health sector.

Alhaji Ajide added that the School had suffered neglect from past administrations, but the administration of former Governor Bukola Saraki and present administration had supported the school with the construction of Library, Hostels and Lecture Hall.

The Provost, said the school had embarked on numerous projects with its Internally Generated Revenue, and appealed to the state government to complete all the abandoned and ongoing projects of the government in the school.

Alhaji Ajide, noted that the College is faced with inadequate staff and manpower, pointing out that some of its staff are casual staff from the Ministries of Health and Environment and called on government to increase their subvention as it was done to other colleges.

           

At the College of Education, Oro, the Provost, Doctor Abiodun Thomas Oyatoye, commended the State Government for increasing the subvention of the State Colleges of Education by fifty percent and appealed to government to return some of its Sandwich degree programmes in French, Political Science, History and affiliate them to the Kwara State University.

Doctor Oyatoye, stated that through this, it would improve the population of the students thereby increasing the revenue of the School and reduce government recurrent expenditure.