Yusuf Adeleke
The Acting Rector of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic Abeokuta, Dr. Adeoye Odedeji has commended a graduate of the polytechnic, Adetutu Seriki who was crowned with President Muhamadu Buhari honorary award as a good citizen and diligent youth corp member during her service year.
Adetutu who is an ex-student of Computer Science in the Polytechnic served as a youth corp member in Oyo state in 2020.
The ex- student was among the 110 recipient honoured in Abuja with automatic employment and scholarship due to her moral service to humanity in Oyo state where she served as a youth corp member
Adetutu on Tuesday presented the honourary award to the Ag. Rector to show appreciation to the management of Moshood Abiola polytechnic and the lecturer who taught and made her.
Speaking on the award, Adetutu expressed that, “it a great privilege to be among the awardee and it is honor to my family, although i didn’t expected anything from anyone, i was just trying to contribute my own quota to help my country as youth, because i think we don’t need to complain about everything we also have to contribute to add value to the nation”.
“I did a modern deep well, at Alakia Oju Elewa Community, school gate and a collapsed fence, there is a bakery beside the school but the fence collapsed, most of the pupils usually peep into what they are doing in the bakery and I saw that this is not good enough, so I have to do something to this, so I constructed the collapsed fence, also the school gate, thugs normally erode the school and do all sorts of things, so I have to do a small gate for the school”.
“When I finished the project, I realised that, I still have enough money with me, and I can’t spend it, I said to myself I need to spend the money on the pupils, so I decided to buy school sandals and uniform for the indigent, because many of them coming to school with bare-foot, I also provided uniform for those who are not having good one on them”.
“So, I will implore that we youth should stop complaining about things, Nigeria is ours, be a good youth anywhere you found yourself, everything is not about money”
The Acting rector Dr. Odedeji that, she is going to be one apostle of the institution, adding that, it is not only the ability to read and write alone that makes her unique, to be identified and to be rewarded, there are other side of it, and that is behavioural.
Dr. Odedeji noted that education would not be relevant if it would not add value to the people(members of the society) while pointing out that Adetutu has proved to be have a good moral, and that is what she has done in the state she served.
The Ag. rector further praised the graduate for representing the polytechnic well as a good role model.
