GOVERNOR UMAHI INAUGURATES EBSU NEW GOVERNING COUNCIL

 Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. David Nweze Umahi, has inaugurated the Ebonyi State University new governing council recently appointed to pilot the affairs of the institution .

He charged the council members during their inauguration in  Abakaliki on Tuesday to improve the quality of education in the ivory tower  by engaging those with high intellectual capacity to impact the right knowledge on students.

Umahi, who recalled that professors were flowing with wisdom in his university days, called for concerted efforts to boost the standard of education  in the institution.

The governor, according a statement on Thursday by his spokesman, Emma Anya  said,  "In my days in the university,   the quality of education was very high and  the quality of the staff was very high. I therefore urge that   the quality of those that   giving education to our children should  improve.

It is  very important. when we say that somebody is a professor that  his mouth should be leaking with knowledge.    When you see him, he should be flowing with  wisdom. That's how we had it at the time we schooled."

He advised the council  to go to other universities to enable them review the staff and faculties of EBSU  upward or downward to make the school economically viable.

Umahi  suggested  that those found unsuitable for the university could    be empowered in the area of agriculture.

 

" I strongly believe that those who should not be in the university can be aggregated into a committee even if it's agriculture.Government  can look for loans  to give  to them for the purpose of agriculture so  that they are not thrown into the society, " the governor advised.

 
While he encouraged the council members  to activate the pension and gratuity fund of the university,  he asked the university  to commence payment of the contributory fund into  a new   account this month.

His words,  "I strongly believe that there is the need to activate the pension and gratuity fund immediately. That should be the first thing you have to do and so liaise with us to appoint managers of the fund . 

"That is very vital and then the university starts to pay contributory pension fund into the account starting from this month."

Responding on behalf of others, the chairman of the   council and pro chancellor of  the  university, Prof. Chigozie Ogbu, assured that they would do their best to deliver on  their mandate.

He  assured  that social vices such as cultism, rape among others would be properly examined with a view to coming up with a   policy to eradicate them.

The high point of the occasion was the donation of two brand new buses to the Student Union Government of  the university  .