FEDPOFFA: A Sightseeing of Development Under Rector, Kadiri Kamoru (2)
FEDPOFFA: A Sightseeing of Development Under Rector, Kadiri Kamoru (2)
Like a traveller searching for treasure, I proceeded to the Federal Polytechnic Offa permanent site along Ojoku. The transformation I witnessed at the mini campus has influenced my decision to visit the permanent site. My first encounter with the security was amazing as the young man gave me the pass, I asked when the Polytechnic began to give passes at the entry level, and the man said, “ our new Rector is innovative.” It’s part of his initiative at the security unit, among other notable interventions. Least of wonders, I smiled and drove in. A short distance from the gate, I saw a signpost for an indoor sports hall. I visited the hall to check the facility used for NIPOGA games. I cannot help but commend the Rector for the level of development of the sports facilities in the indoor sports hall. From what I observed, it is the biggest and one of the best in Nigerian tertiary institutions. My Alma Mater has really transformed under the 5th substantive Rector.
I left the indoor sports to complete my tour. I went straight to my Department, Mass Communication, to at least say hello to my lecturers. On getting to the department, I was informed the lecturers now have their offices somewhere adjacent to the department. Furthermore, I requested a student to lead me there, and on getting there, it was a befitting edifice, a construction, and furnishing of 30 offices for Chief lecturers and senior lecturers. Before I left school, lecturers shared offices; it’s obvious that the Rector of the Polytechnic has come with transformation. Within that vicinity, I saw a big ICT building. Yes, I had the plan to tour the facilities, and the ICT building, fully furnished, is another edifice constructed under Dr. Kadiri Kamoru.
The permanent site is no longer the same with infrastructural development. I returned to the Mass Communication department and saw ongoing construction, the signpost read construction and furnishing of 500 lecture theaters for the school of information and communication. In the history of Mass Communication, it will be the first time having a dedicated lecture theatre. During our day in school, it was always movement ups and downs to receive lectures. I told myself the change is happening at the Federal Polytechnic Offa.
Within the axis of the 500 lecture theatre, I saw students with engineering attire. I approached them and asked what they were doing in PS; their response stunned me as the beautiful edifice was constructed for the Engineering Department, including the laboratory. Only one with myopia will get to the building without giving kudos. At that point, I gave a big kudos to the federal government for different interventions in higher institutions.
Not only the Electrical Electronics Engineering Department, but the Civil Engineering Department is right there beside the Electrical Electronics Engineering Department. I witnessed wonders—the sight of engineers. I must pay kudos to the visionary Rector.
Recently, I read it online that the Polytechnic matriculated first batch Open Distance and flexible e-learning students. The institution’s skill development centre is equally doing well as part of many establishment of the current Rector. In all ramifications, the Rector of my alma mater has raised the bar of administration with many firsts achievements.
History has its pages for those who made change possible, and the pages of history are filled with the names of men and women of inestimable values. Either positive or negative, people are busy writing their history. The future will tell if history will be kind to them based on what they have written. The truth remains pellucid; history has its archive.
With legible handwriting, the Rector of the Federal Polytechnic Offa Kwara State, Engr. Dr. Kadiri Kamoru Oluwatoyin FNSE is writing a beautiful epistle on the pages of history with his innovative ideas and strides of development that have characterized the nooks and crannies of the Polytechnic. The trend of development is visible to the blind and audible to the deaf. Distinctively, the Rector has given birth to a new polytechnic and ushered in the era of methods.
Oluwasegun Ojo is a graduate of Mass Communication from the Federal Polytechnic Offa, based in Abuja.
