Less than 48 hours after the Federal Government announced the composition of Governing Council for federal tertiary institutions, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) on Monday rejected the lists for federal polytechnics.

ASUP President, Shammah Kpanja in a statement said the union has studied the released list of new members and expressed its dissatisfaction and disappointment with the composition for the polytechnics.

He said: “Our union has been demanding that persons with the requisite knowledge of the workings of the sector be appointed. Such persons in the category of former rectors and other principal officers from the sector, former chief executives and staff of the regulatory body, retired and serving chief lecturers and other staff from the sector that has displayed adequate knowledge of the workings of the sector abounds in sufficient numbers.

“The current composition falls significantly short of the above as no such person(s) in the categories listed was appointed. This is a great disservice to the Polytechnics and is also different from the experience in the two other sub sectors that make up the tertiary education sector.”

ASUP demanded that the list for the polytechnics be reviewed before the inauguration to include the class of persons with requisite knowledge of the workings of polytechnics. (Daily Sun)