Prince Michael Nku Abuo|14 April 2016|5:25am
His Excellency Senator Professor Benedict Ayade, the Executive Governor of Cross River State has directed for the immediate resolution of the administrative issues preventing the resumption of students of the Institute of Management Technology, ITM, Ugep for their second semester session.
Therefore, His Excellency, the Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Professor Ivara Esu has been mandated by our Governor to resolve the said issues with the management of the institution.
The process of resolving these issues has commenced as His Excellecncy, the Deputy Governor of Cross River State has started the negotiation process with the management to bring this quagmire which is financial to an end.
The submission of the challenges faced by students of this institution was made known to the Special Assistant Student Affairs and Youth Mobilization to the Governor – Prince Michael Nku Abuo by her Student Union Government officials and he communicated same to His Excellency, the Governor of Cross River State leading to the said actions to resolve the strike within the shortest possible time.
His Excellency, the Governor of Cross River State assures Cross Riverians of detribalised and people oriented leadership while enjoining students to focus on their academics.
Prince Michael Nku Abuo, JP
Special Assistant Student Affairs and Youth Mobilization
13/04/2016
*Committee Report of The Restructuring of ITM, Ugep.
Summary And Recommendations.
c/o Liason Office
Institute of Management Technology,
State Housing Estate,
Calabar.
13th January, 2016.
To,
The Secretary to the State Government,
Office of the Governor,
Calabar.
Dear Madam,
SUBMISSION OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT ON RESTRUCTURING OF THE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY, UGEP.
By your letter SSG/GSA/S/Vol. ix/408 of 28th September, 2015, you conveyed to us the approval of His Excellency the Governor to constitute eight of us into a Committee to look into the affairs of the Institute of Technology and Management, Ugep, with a view to ensuring that the Cross River State Government's dream of running a special kind of Polytechnic in Nigeria does not die. You specifically mandated us to review both the law establishing the Institute and the management contract agreement between Highbury College of the United Kingdom and Cross River State Government. If we dis not adopt the option of terminating the contract withHighbury College, we were to negotiate the re-scheduling of confirmed debts, review the present recurrent cost of running the Institute, advise on the courses and programs to be run in the institute and finally propose an appropriate name for the institute. You gave us two weeks to submit our reports.
We were inaugurated in the 12th of October, 2015. In the course of our work, it became clear that the scope of our work needed more time than two weeks, especially considering the time consuming requirement for us to search and recommend an alternative partner to run the institute. Despite the severe logistics problems that we encountered, we visited the institute, interviewed many stakeholders as well as shown in an annexure to our request for an extension of time up to 20th of November, 2015. His Excellency the Deputy Governor graciously granted the request.
In executing this assignment, our primary focus was to determine whether or not the State Government should continue with its partnership with Highbury College since most of the terms of reference had a bearing on the future of that partnership. In determining what to recommend in this regard, the Committee considered a) the legal implication of terminating the contract, b) the dislocation and likely consequent delay in the execution of the project, c) the loss of the huge investment already made in the project and d) the success we achieved in persuading Highbury College to accept a rescheduling of the debt and reduce the cost of running the Institute in the last three years of the contract. After painstaking consideration of these points, the Committee came to the conclusion that it would be in the best interest of the people of Cross River State to allow Highbury College to continue to run the Institute of Technology and Management.
Altogether we made 34 recommendations which, if accepted and implemented, will give the people of Cross River State the Polytechnic of their dreams.
Signed By
Wifred Inah
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