The outgoing Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ile Oluji, Ondo State
Emmanuel Fasakin, says that Nigeria cannot develop without
polytechnic education.
He stated that if polytechnic education was scrapped the country
would be doomed, pointing out that the bedrock of industrialisation
was polytechnic.
The outgoing rector, who spoke at the launching of his memoir to
mark the end of a successful two-term tenure as the pioneer rector of
the polytechnic, explained that it was polytechnic education that
would produce manpower needed in factories.
Fasakin said that Nigeria should not rely on manpower from outside
the country for its industries to survive. He added that abolishing
polytechnic education is tantamount to suicide.
He, therefore, asked the Nigerian government to provide conducive
and enabling environment for Nigerian citizens to work and thrive in
their respective academic endeavours, noting that Nigerian scholars
were leaving the shores of the country to where their potential would
be harnessed and well remunerated.
