David Willams
…say step ‘ll bolster scholarship, job creation
A youth group under the auspices of Ekiti Rebirth Solidarity Group (ERSG), has praised the spouse of a House of Representatives member, Mrs Jaiyeola Bamisile, for establishing a world class polytechnic in Ekiti State to enhance enhance scholarship advancement and job creation.
The group said it received the news with utmost elation that the wife of the lawmaker representing Ekiti South Federal Constituency II, Hon Femi Bamisile, got the leave of the National Board for Technical Education to establish a Polytechnic to expose the youth population to better education.
The tertiary institution christened Montgomery Polytechnic established by Mrs Bamisile, is located at Ikere Ekiti, headquarters of Ekiti South Senatorial District.
The group in a statement signed by its Coordinator, Hon. Dare Abey and made available to journalists in Ado Ekiti, on Friday, commended Mrs Bamisile for deeming Ekiti fit for such academically inclined project.
The youth leader appreciated Governor Biodun Oyebanji for preparing a propitious ground for investments to thrive in Ekiti, describing this as the underlying impetus for the founder to venture into such a capital- intensive business.
Abey stated that this lofty action will help in promoting the culture of scholarship and academic endowment the state is widely respected for from time immemorial.
He said the founder establishing a Polytechnic at a time the nation is desperately questing for embracement of technical education, was a well thought-out plan and indication that Bamisile’s family is totally pan-Ekiti.
The ERSG Coordinator urged the youth to apply to the school and get the requisite skills to operate under a 21st century economy.
Abey made passionate appeal to NBTE, to as a regulatory agency, grants the Polytechnic, with world class structures, the requisite accreditation to be able to begin operation swiftly and add values to education in Nigeria.
The group leader appealed to the host community to partner the founder to ensure that the tertiary institutions operates seamlessly and without social hitches.
“We received with joy, the news of the establishment of Montgomery Polytechnic, set to be a world class institution in Ekiti State by Mrs Jaiyeola Bamisile. We are of the unflagging view that this step will promote quality technical education in our dear country.
“The youth will be the greatest beneficiaries of this gesture because this Polytechnic will offer a leeway for them to get higher certificates and there will be job offers to bail them out of this threatening unemployment rate in Nigeria.
“We are particularly happy that this coming at a time the reality of technical education is staring us in the face makes Mrs Bamisile’s investment in education more rewarding and patriotic.
“We appeal to the youth to embrace this opportunity. We also appeal to the host community to do everything within its power to support hitch-free take off of the institution in no distant time by helping in checkmating criminals from prowling around the school”.