The leadership of National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) has kicked against the ‘discrimination of Polytechnic and Monotechnic graduates in Nigeria’.
This is as the students’ body alleged the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) of implementing policies targeted at HND holders only.
This was conveyed in a statement issued by its Southwest PRO, Comrade Oyewumi Festus on Wednesday, 7th of August, 2024.
According to NAPS, JAMB blocked Part time students of Polytechnics and monotechnics who eventually did their HND in Full time from partaking in NYSC scheme, while the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) ordered Polytechnic and Monotechnic graduates to produce evidence of completion of the one year Industrial training.
The statement reads partly: “..over some months now, there are different policies made by NYSC and Jamb against the Polytechnic and Monotechnic Graduates, ranging from the issue of Part time Students in ND who eventually did their HND in Full time not allowed to partake in NYSC Camp, recently another memo was issued by National Youth Service Corps(NYSC) that Polytechnic and Monotechnic Graduates should produce evidence of Completion the one year Industrial Training, where as University Counterpart also do have their Industrial Training as well but were not ask to produce the same evidence, its very clear that the same HND/Bsc Dichotomy is very much active against the Polytechnic and Monotechnic graduates in all sectors in Nigeria, this discrimination is centre towards destruction of Polytechnic Education in Nigeria, the Polytechnic graduates are doing extremely well than the University Graduates on the field especially in Technical Aspect, those who has University Education and are at incharge Policy Formation should stop using their hatred against Polytechnic Education in formulating bad Policies against the progress of Polytechnic Education in Nigeria.”
NAPS, equally appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to caution both JAMB and NYSC against discrimination of Polytechnic graduates in Nigeria.
While calling for support, NAPS said “Polytechnic products across Nigeria should wake up and give support to stop the discrimination, knowing fully well that no country can grow beyond the level of her technical development and technology advancement, our dear country that can’t produce just ordinary tooth pick are hell bent to destroy the technical base education that are still doing little in the Production Industries in Nigeria and Federal Government is not doing anything in regards.
