PORT HARCOURT – Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has asserted that the State’s four tertiary institutions are top-notch and generally competitive, saying that their performances over the years had shown that they outclassed their peers anywhere in the country. Governor Fubara said that available records indicated high ratings on performance in all sectors, from infrastructure to manpower, service delivery and students overall output. He however advised against individual or collective decisions and actions that inadvertently contribute to destroying public institutions, making it almost impossible to correct when the evil caused becomes regrettable.
Governor Fubara said these when he received in audience the House of Representatives Technical Sub-Committee on Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) and Other Services, led by its Chairman, Hon. Miriam Odinaka Onuoha, at Government House in Port Harcourt on Thursday. The Governor in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Nelson Chukwudi, cautioned that people who should know better and well exposed to workings of public institutions must not put themselves in such positions to disrespect constituted authority owing to the fact that they disliked the occupant of a particular office.
Governor Fubara insisted: “But it is the mistake that we are making. If you do not respect an authority, you are killing an institution. It is not about the head as at today.
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