The provost of the Oleh Campus of the Delta State University (DELSU) Prof Benjamin Okaba, has called on the state government to intervene before its Engineering Faculty is disaccredited.
According to a Leadership report, Okaba said the Faculty may lose its interim accreditation over lack of manpower facilities if the status quo is maintained.
The Provost revealed that the enormous challenges facing the school have prevented it from admitting any students in the past three years.
Okaba said, thought the Engineering Faculty has sufficient physical structures, it suffers from acute shortage of qualified staff and facilities.
He said the Civil Engineering department is headed by a Lecturer 1 and has only four permanent staff, a situation he says applies to almost all the departments in the institution.
According to him, the manpower gap led to the recruitment of a large number of casual staff, paid from internally generated revenue.
Even then, the institution finds it difficult to source the N3 Million needed monthly to pay the casual staff, given that it only receives N500,000 as monthly subvention.
Okaba added that, unless the government comes to its rescue, the institution now risks losing its accreditation.
Meanwhile, the management plans to lay off most of the casual staff whose salaries have become a burden too heavy to bear.