By Abubakar labaran
Kafanchan
Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COESU), Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya chapter, has expressed satisfaction over what it described as the “significant commitment” by Governor Nasri Ahmed El-Rufa’i towards addressing critical challenges bedevilling the institution.
Chairman of the chapter, Comrade Dadah Paul Madaki, gave the commendation while addressing newsmen on Saturday in Kafanchan.
Madaki said the governor had made frantic efforts by evolving machinery to reorganised, rehabilitate and rebuild the college, having set a visitation panel and also produced a white paper on the report of the visitation panel as a response to the clarion call made by the Union to the government.
Madaki applauded Governor El-Rufa’i for overhauling the administrative setup of the institution through the appointment of Prof. Emmanuel Joseph Chom along with other professionals to give the college purposeful leadership.
The chairman, however, appealed to the state government to further match policy with pragmatic action, by supporting the new leadership to achieve set objectives.
He said there was every need for the government to adequately provide funding to the task force to implement and execute necessary reforms and projects conceived in the white paper.
Madaki also appealed to the state government to implement the 65 years retirement age policy for academic staff as introduced by the National Commission for Colleges of Education to allow for retention of experience staff.
The chairman called on the government to consider the possibility of momentarily relaxing the treasury single account (TSA) policy in the college to free up funds for speedy implementation of the urgent projects.
He implored the governor to implement the current salary structure in the state’s tertiary institutions to check the increasing cases of brain of academic staff.
