By Miracle Ogunde
Students of Ondo State College of Health Technology in Akure have accused the immediate past Provost of the College, Dr. Felix Olawoye and the HOD of the Community Health Department, Mr. Paul Ilegbusi of corruption over failure to index the successful probation students in the Community Health Board in Abuja.
According to the information gathered by Starnews NG, the former Provost allegedly defied the quota approved by the Community Health Board for the College and the Department by admitting over 300% of the approved quota.
A source in the school management who pleaded anonymity told Starnews NG that the former provost made the students to pay school fees and indexing fees, apart from the scores of students kept in the school and were asked to either leave the school or pay for change of course fee to cross to other departments.
The source also revealed that other departments have also exceeded their own quotas and therefore have no spaces for the students.
According to him “The Provost who thought he could bribe the officers of the Abuja Community Board had promised the students that he had secured 200 spaces for those that were successful in the probational examination and met the necessary requirements including payment for indexing.
“The students were shocked after their return from the last trip to hear that only 120 of them were accepted leaving the remaining 80 students un-indexed by the Board. This alleged deceit sparked off the present outrage that broke out on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Starnews NG reports that members of the National Association of Nigeria Students, NANS, Ondo State Chapter, visited the College yesterday (Wednesday) to stall academic programmes and halt all administrative works.
It was gathered that the intervention of experienced management staff saved the situation as they appealed to the raging and aggrieved students to remain calm.
The School Management, however, appealed to the students, assuring that all hands would be on deck to ensure that normalcy is restored without further delay.
A lecturer who pleaded anonymity said “this is why the academic staff are saying that medical practitioners should not be appointed as our Provost because they are not good managers of Colleges/Schools of Health Technologies as they know nothing about core academic jobs”.
Meanwhile, all attempts to reach the former Provost of the College for clarification on the matter proved abortive as at the time of filing this report.
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