…Govt Intervention .
Condemnations have continued to trail the rising rate of extortion as well as non constitution of Academic Board in Imo State College of Health and Management Sciences, Amaigbo , Nwangele LGA, Imo state.
Investigations revealed that for the past five years extortionist activities have allegedly continued to go on unchecked leading to low admissions and bad press on daily basis. This time it was alleged that fresh students were asked to pay twenty thousand naira (#20000) for registration of General Studies GNS.
This allegation is coming to the fore
barely two weeks after the same fresh students were asked by the school management to pay a whooping sum of forty
thousand naira (#40000) for just matriculation and production of participation certificate.
Expressing their anguish some parents of the students who spoke to our reporter condemned the idea of demanding such whooping sum from students describing demand as outrageous and exploitative.
One parent madam Veronica Amadi whose son is also student called on Imo state government to intervene and save students from the extortions going on in the school to save the school from losing its glory.
Madam Ify whose daughter was newly admitted expressed displeasure over the compulsory payment of #20000 for GNS registration adding that if she knew that school was so expensive she would not have allowed her daughter to gain admission to study any course in thr school.
In her words,’ I have spent over a million naira before now. Now I am paying for GNS registration and learnt we will pay another fee of about #2000 at Student’s Affairs.
A junior staff who pleaded anonymity said,’ why won’t the students be charged to pay arbitrarily when it has run for some years without constitution of Academic Board. According to him it is against scholarship to run an academic institution with academic board. He called for government intervention before the institution turns to cash and carry institution.
It will be recalled the Provost of the college singlehandedly dissolved the existing academic board and since then has never reconstituted it.
All efforts made to get response proved abortive as the acting provost, Pharm. Obiasogu Ethelbert refused to pick his calls nor reply text messages sent to his phones.
