Allegation of mismanagement, nepotism untrue – Aviation College Rector
The Rector of the Kwara State owned International Aviation College, Engr Benedict Emmanuel Adeyileka has described as false the allegation of mismanagement of fund and nepotism.
Adeyileka who made this known in a press conference, yesterday, in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital today said he accepted to head the college because of his global experience in aircraft engineering.
He further revealed that there are only two Aviation colleges in whole of West Africa.
He said, “Before I became Rector of this College I had the opportunity to regulate the College from NCAA and I knew this is the only way I could displayed my skills because if you go and work in a place that is already set up you won’t have any Challenges,”
Enunerating the challenges, Adeyileka said, “Funding was our biggest problem, I looked for technicality with the minimum funding to redeem the College back because of my experience in the Aviation Industry,”
“The management of the college automatically becomes marketers, we look for ways to source for funds to run the College,”
He said the College operation was suspended by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) due to not meeting the regulatory requirements and no certification among other backlog of issues.
“I can boldly say I met the College in a very worst condition which the College Registrar Alhaji Rasheed Aiyelabegan ,the Head of Training (HOT) Captain Joseph Garba and other management and staff can testify to. Immediately I resume office ,my first mandate was to recover the certification of the College from NCAA which was very difficult but with the help of Almighty God I did it successfully”
“Then I set up Committee that work tiredlessly to bring back the College to limelight, I broke the barrier of division of labour and my reputable management agreed with me and they pledged to improve in all that will bring developments back to the college. After series of meeting. I met most of our customers, I had to convince them to patronize us and with my unwavering faith the College was able to get Students even better than before. The classrooms are now electronic classrooms, modernize simulators, full Air conditioned, and qualities training equipments,”
“I inherited many things, backlogs of staffers, faulty equipment etc, I made sure all what I inherited was cleared off. Now People are withdrawing from the federal owned Aviation College Zaria for our own Aviation College Ilorin.”
This was coming on the heel of several allegations of mismanagement of fund and nepotism leveled against the rector.
