The House of Representatives Committee on Public Assets has asked the Management of Kaduna Polytechnic, the Federal Ministry of Education and the Presidential Implementation Committee on government property to put a stop to the planned sale and allocation of property belonging to the federal tertiary institution.
This followed the consideration of a petition to the House by some serving and retired staff members of the polytechnic.
Owned property by the Kaduna Polytechnic reportedly spread across the State, comprising land, staff quarters and guest houses that were being sold to staff and non staff of the polytechnic.
The committee has however, summoned Rector of the Polytechnic Dr Suleiman Umar, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Education and Head of Presidential Implementation Committee, including the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics, Kaduna Polytechnic chapters to an Investigative hearing.
The polytechnic staff had in a petition addressed to the Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas accused the management of the Kaduna Polytechnic of carrying out illegal action by carving out parts of their plots of land and selling them to non-staff of the institution without remitting the money to the government account.
They also claimed that most of the teaching and non-teaching staff of the polytechnic are not aware of the sale of the houses and plots of land owned by the institution..
The Committee directed that further allocations of plots of land and staff quarters of the Polytechnic to non-staff of the school be stopped pending the conclusion of investigation into the alleged shady deals.
“We have a lot of students who are in school now who will become staff of the Kaduna Polytechnic tomorrow. If you sell all the land and staff quarters particularly to non-staff of the school now, where will they be tomorrow?”
Head of the Presidential Implementation Committee, Bala Sanusi earlier told the Committee that the issue of leasing of Kaduna Polytechnic plots of land and houses had resulted in legal battle that lasted for over ten years before it was later resolved through out of court settlement.
