Rector of the Federal Polytechnic of Oil and Gas, Bonny, Rivers State, Professor Tamunoimi Abbey says the founding vision of the institution was to be the producer of the needed manpower for the oil and gas sector in the country.

In a statement signed by the Head of Media and Publicity Department of the polytechnic, Emmanuel Hart, and posted on the institution’s Facebook page, the Rector further said that achieving this vision required the support of relevant stakeholders.

He reiterated his administration’s proactive quest for excellence and rapid transformation of the institution into hub of learning and skills development in the Niger Delta and Nigeria, asserting that a broad-based synergy among the stakeholders would fats-track the realization of the institution’s set objectives. 

The erudite scholar expressed appreciation to the traditional institution led by the Amanyanabo and Natural Ruler of Bonny Kingdom, His Majesty, King Edward Asimini William Dappa Pepple III, CON, Perekule XI, and members of the Bonny Council of Chiefs for donating the portion of land to the institution for infrastructural development.

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Maintaining that the trajectory of ongoing infrastructural transformation of the institution will be sustained, the Professor of Physics assured that with the cooperation of his management team, more feats would be recorded in the days to come.

Checks by Kristina Reports reveal that Prof. Tamunoimi Abbey has sustained engagement with the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) and other Federal Government intervention agencies, which contractors had abandoned their projects due to unavailability of land, resulting in their return to site.

This has ensured that aside several Infrastructure recently developed and handed over to the school by the PTDF, several other projects were currently ongoing despite the negative effect of the Covid-19 pandemic and its resultant lockdowns.

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The Rector used the occasion to appeal to those encroaching on the institution’s property to desist forthwith, urging them to rather join the management and other stakeholders in Bonny Kingdom to build and support the Federal Government’s dream of making the Niger Delta and Bonny, in particular, a critical hub of manpower development in the oil and gas industry.