The management of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, has raised the alarm over the threat of erosion at its permanent site in Oko, where completed and ongoing buildings and other infrastructure are washed away by erosion.
The Rector of the polytechnic, Prof. Godwin Onu, who visited the permanent site on Thursday after flood washed away a sizable proportion of the permanent site, said the level of intervention needed was beyond what the polytechnic could afford.
Only a few months ago, the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, who led the Good Governance Team on tour of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, commended the pace of development at the site, where buildings worth about N7.5bn face imminent collapse following the erosion menace.
Onu, who was visibly disturbed by the magnitude of the threat lamented the danger to the massive infrastructural development going on within the site.
These, he said, included two-storey building of School of Engineering, Science Laboratory Technology, Ekwueme Resource Center, office accommodation complex, Virtual Resource Center, Chinese Language and Cultural Center.
Others include Food Technological Complex and four auditoriums of different capacities. These projects, he added, had reached different stages of completion, but might be lost if urgent steps were not taken to curb the rampaging erosion.
The Rector said the institution had already lost its perimeter fence to the erosion and expressed worries over the speed of the spread of the gully erosion despite management’s efforts to check it.
The management of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, has raised the alarm over the threat of erosion at its permanent site in Oko, where completed and ongoing buildings and other infrastructure are washed away by erosion.
The Rector of the polytechnic, Prof. Godwin Onu, who visited the permanent site on Thursday after flood washed away a sizable proportion of the permanent site, said the level of intervention needed was beyond what the polytechnic could afford.
Only a few months ago, the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, who led the Good Governance Team on tour of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, commended the pace of development at the site, where buildings worth about N7.5bn face imminent collapse following the erosion menace.
Onu, who was visibly disturbed by the magnitude of the threat lamented the danger to the massive infrastructural development going on within the site.
These, he said, included two-storey building of School of Engineering, Science Laboratory Technology, Ekwueme Resource Center, office accommodation complex, Virtual Resource Center, Chinese Language and Cultural Center.
Others include Food Technological Complex and four auditoriums of different capacities. These projects, he added, had reached different stages of completion, but might be lost if urgent steps were not taken to curb the rampaging erosion.
The Rector said the institution had already lost its perimeter fence to the erosion and expressed worries over the speed of the spread of the gully erosion despite management’s efforts to check it.
