The House Committee on Polytechnics and Other Higher Technical Education has tasked federal polytechnics with producing experts to utilise natural resources nationwide.

The committee chairman, Fuad Kayode Laguda (APC-Lagos), made the call at an oversight session with some rectors of the Federal Polytechnic in Abuja.

The schools are, Federal Polytechnic Kauran-Namoda, Zamfara, Federal Polytechnic Bauchi, Federal Polytechnic Kaltungo, Gombe, and Federal Polytechnic Bali, Taraba.

Mr Laguda charged the rectors of the polytechnics to introduce courses and programmes that will produce experts to maximise all potentials in their various catchment areas.

He also tasked the schools to maintain high standards to produce ‘A-class’ students that will deliver good results in society and attract more youths to polytechnics.

The chairman particularly tasked the rector, Federal Polytechnic Kaura-Namoda Zamfara, Jonathan Murdi, to introduce Geology, Mining and other related courses in order to educate youths and empower them against social victors like banditry.

“If you have courses in mining, some of these gold and things that they find in the soil there, they will be coming to do the test in your school, which is also a source of IGR for you.

“So things should not be right under your nose, and you skip it like it is impossible. It is the happenings of today that you would apply, and that is part of what they call innovation, so please look into this.

“All this can be done by the standard that you keep or that you give to the students. If we are producing A-list students, and by the time they start working with places and they are giving good results, you will be surprised by the multiplier effect that that will bring to you,” he said. 

(NAN)