Adamawa State College of Agriculture Ganye, has bemoaned lack of accreditation of its 14 Courses which the institution has been running since its establishment about 27 years ago.
The College also appealed for the amendment of edict which established the institution so as to change the name of the college to enable it pursue grants from organisations such as Tertiary Education Trust Fund(TETfund )so as to develop the college.
The Provost of the College Dr. Abubakar Yaji Jarma, stated this while receiving the Chairman and members of the Adamawa State House of Assembly Standing Committee on Education who were at the institution on familiarisation tour today.
The Provost observed that the major problem of the college is lack of accreditation of 14 of its courses, saying it is a very serious problem to the college, Adamawa state and the students.
He attributed lack of accreditation of the courses to lack of enough infrastructure such as classrooms, staff room, multi purpose hall, facilities in its laboratory and other equipment to meet the international standard.
According to him, the college had forwarded its memo requesting for the sum of#500million from the immediate past administration to develop and seek for accreditation of its programmes, but the government approved the sum #70million without releasing even a dime to that effect.
He however appealed to the house to amend the edict which established the college and change its name to enable them access grants from organisations such as TETfund in order to develop the school.
He told the committee that the law that established TETfund delisted all the monotechnics across the country, saying their effort to see that the monotechnics were enlisted into TETfund, their struggle could not yield any positive outcome.
He stated that when some Colleges of Agriculture in states like Jigawa and Ogun respectively discovered that they could not get any intervention from TETfund, they changed the names of their colleges to polytechnics bearing prominent individual names.
He added that it can be changed after peoples' names and not necessarily after the state, saying that this will lead them to a roadmap they can use to pursue grants as well as reenlisted into TETfund.
Dr. Abubakar Yaji Jarma, told the committee that the institution presently has 4 campuses, 14 departments, 520 staff including those recently employed, adding that out of the number of the staff, 167 are academic staff while 352 non academic staff.
Speaking earlier, the Chairman of the Committee Hon. Bathiya Wesley (Hong) promised to channel the problems of the college to the house for necessary action, and said he will personally brief the Governor on their plight.
Hon. Bathiya, said that his committee's visit was to familiarise itself with the operations of the institution, saying that the Committee is planning to visit all its MDAs for an oversight function.
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