Moshood Abiola Polytechnic crisis deepens as teachers boycott examinations

The Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta was mired in confusion as the staff of the institution shunned the second semester examination billed to start yesterday.

This followed a faceoff between the Ogun State government and members of the institution’s Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) over the conversion of the Polytechnic to Moshood Abiola University of Science and Technology (MAUSTECH), and the establishment of Ogun State Polytechnic, Ipokia.

However, students who had prepared for the examination were stranded, as there was no teaching staff to neither conduct the examination nor address the students on the new development.

When The Guardian visited the institution’s Ojere Campus, members of the union were sighted in their large numbers attending their scheduled emergency congress at the Union House.

Attempts to speak with some of them, however, yielded no gains as they declined comments on the outcome of the meeting.

The Guardian, September 20, 2017

 

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