How Federal Poly Nekede rewarded me with Pains, tears after Graduation, seized my Result, stopped my NYSC —Ms Kalu Ndukwe Cries

As I write now Sir, they have not done anything and they are not saying anything. I do not have anyone to speak for me. I could have engaged the service of a lawyer who will speak for me but the money to pay for one is the problem as I have every evidence against them and I know they cannot do anything against the TRUTH but for THE TRUTH. Please help me dearies let me get out of this mess for it has stay too long than expected .

By ThankGod Emeh, Owerri. 

It is always joyful and the desire of every Nigerian student to successfully graduate from one academic level to another, especially from tertiary institutions and embarking on one-year compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)- a service to their fatherland  in order to be certified a full graduate. But the joy of a HND-Mass Communication Graduate of Federal Polytechnic, Nekede Owerri, Miss Kalu Ndidiamaka Ndukwe has cut short since two years after gratuation and not being called up for Youth Service due to an internal error in her alma mater.

Miss Ndukwe who hails from Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State has taken to different fora and platforms to narrate her ordeal in the hands of some officials in the polytechnic who she  said initiated her problems and have done nothing to rectify the situation.

Miss Kalu Ndidiamaka Ndukwe

According to her, the whole problem started in May 2017 when she was posted to Ebonyi state alongside her course mates to their various states for the one-year compulsory National Youth Service Corps NYSC after graduating from Federal Polytechnic Nekede Owerri via Mass Communication Department.

Kalu Ndidiamaka ndukwe in an Event

“I was meritoriously admitted into the Institution in 2014/2015 academic session to read Higher National Diploma (HND) Mass communication. I passed through the all-important screening exercise where my transcript from my former school where I did my National Diploma was a basis after which I was given a registration number and Identity card even while I was asked to go and pay my school fees. I did HND 1 to HND 11 successfully as I passed all exams given to me and my name was published in the past list and academic board list for mobilization for NYSC in April 2017”, she said

Ndukwu who confirmed that she was among the students who had convocation in September 2017 said the Polytechnic management also published her name in the convocation brochure (19th Convocation ceremony of the Polytechnic) adding that she has a copy of the brochure to show for her claims.

“We did convocation in September, 2017 and I have a copy of the brochure where my name was bodly written as this also testifies that the school has certified me and found me worthy in both character and learning.”

She continued by saying “At the point of collecting my statement of result in May 2017 to report to the Orientation camp since I was posted at Ebonyi State in the Batch A stream 1, my problem started. They said I should wait for verification of transcript as I did my Diploma in another school. I was surprised that since February 2015 when I sent my transcript through my former school, Federal Polytechnic Nekede, has not done my verification. It took a long time and before they will finish authenticating my result, Camp has been closed and I was now asked to wait for another Batch or stream.”

“I thought they will give me my result after the authentication but I was denied my result as they told me from the verification unit that I was not supposed to be admitted in the first place into a Polytechnic because of the university affiliation which my former school, International Institute of Journalism, Abuja, had with University of Maiduguri.”

For her,  it seemed an end to her problems when asked to write a letter to the Committee of Deans so that the result will be released to her on compassionate ground or on waiver as it was very clear that the error was not hers but that of the screening staff in the school who screened her into the Polytechnic but the reverse became the case.

“July 2017 was when I wrote the letter. Each time I go to school I will be abused, humiliated and insulted by the school management who are not saying anything concerning my case. Every time, they will tell me that they have not held meeting or come back tomorrow, that they were busy with other management programs. These has cause me a lot of psychological trauma, depression, frustration and mental stress even till now since it is exactly one year and they are still not saying anything. It is their silence that is killing me the more”, Ndukwe decried.

The sound gratuate who couldn’t hold back tears because of her helpless situations recalled how the journey of her life started and the numerous services rendered to the entire school and Mass Communication Department in particular.

“They want to delay me in vain. After two years of struggle, hard work and pain to acquire HND, they want all my efforts to be in vain. Being that I’m an orphan who loosed both parents at a very tender age. I struggled to see myself through school and refused to do what my peers did. I refused to be a burden to my society.”

Also,  “It may interest you to know that I was privileged to be a departmental exco in Mass Communication and in less than one year I formed a formidable team and we produced the First ever Magazine (Campus Watch) of the Department as the Director of Publicity cum Editor- in- Chief. I also revived and brought back to news stand their newspaper (PolyNek Express) which was out of the news stand for 4yrs. I was into campus journalism because of my experience from International Institute of Journalism”, she recalled with tears.

She said she did a lot of free publication and high publicity for the progress of Federal Polytechnic Nekede Owerri, her department -Mass Communication and the management infrastructural programs because she always wanted the best for her Alma mater which secured her a work in the department but had to leave because of her problem which the department seemingly failed to asist in.

In her words ” I did a lot of free publication and high publicity for Federal Polytechnic Nekede Owerri, my department and the management infrastructural programs because I always wanted the best for my school and this made my then Head of Department (HOD), Dr. Basilia Igbokwe, retain me as a staff immediately after my graduation but I left the job in August 2017 because of the frustration as I cannot work in an environment where I do not have peace”

“As I write now Sir, they have not done anything and they are not saying anything. I do not have anyone to speak for me. I could have engaged the service of a lawyer who will speak for me but the money to pay for one is the problem as I have every evidence against them and I know they cannot do anything against the TRUTH but for THE TRUTH. Please help me dearies let me get out of this mess for it has stay too long than expected.”

Kalu Ndidiamaka Ndukwe and her graduated Course mates in front of Mass Communication Department, Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri.

News Corner® Media appeals the general public,  civil society groups,  concerned academia, human rights activists to look into this issue and assist Miss Kalu Ndidiamaka Ndukwe in every way possible because of the urgency of the matter at hand to see to the release of her HND result in Federal polytechnic Nekede Owerri.

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