Osun College Of Technology In Dire State – Alumnus Raises The Alarm

An Alumnus of the Osun State College of Technology (OSCOHTECH), Esa-Oke, Michael Adeniji, has expressed displeasure over the deteriorating condition of the institution.

Adeniyi, in a Facebook post recently, bemoaned the decaying infrastructure, dilapidated classrooms and poor laboratory facilities in the school.

According to him, the institution is currently short of Staff, with permanent staff accounting for less than 10 percent of the entire workforce.

He also pointed out that lecturers in the institution are underpaid while blaming successive governments in the state for the current state of the school.

He wrote: “Honestly, what I saw was painful, heart-breaking, and deeply disturbing. This was once a school filled with dreams. A school where children of ordinary Nigerians came to seek a better future. A school that produced engineers, technologists, innovators and leaders.

“But today, the school looks abandoned. Bushes everywhere like farmland. Bad and decaying infrastructure, dilapidated classrooms, poor laboratory facilities, departments struggling to survive while the institution gasps for life.

“And the most painful part, there is a terrible shortage of staff. Permanent staff are now less than 10% of the entire workforce. The school is being run mostly by IGR contract staff, men and women who lecture students, supervise projects, and carry departments on their heads while earning slavery salaries; ₦36,000 for BSc/HND holders, ₦40,000 for MSc holders and ₦45,000 for PhD holders.

“Some of these people have worked for 5, 10, 15, even 20 years without dignity, proper benefits, or job security. This is not education. This is survival. And we must ask difficult questions. I hold both the past and current administrations responsible for this decline.”

Adeniji called on Governor Ademola Adeleke and other stakeholders to save the school and education in the state.

Yusuf Oketola

Yusuf Oketola is a trained journalist with over five years of experience in the media industry. He has worked for both print and online medium. He is a thorough-bred professional with an eye of hindsight on issues bothering on social justice, purposeful leadership, and a society where the leaders charge and work for the prosperity of the people.

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