OTADA IN THE GRIP OF THE MALUMFASHI SAGE.

March 9, 2021 at 1:07 pm

In the middle of 2020, I drove a friend to the then sleepy settlement of Otada at the northern fringe of Otukpo town. Our mission was to see the take-off site of the Federal University of Health Sciences, the most discussed issue on the lips of Idoma people at the time. What we saw was the sorry sight of a completely abandoned, unkept, dilapidated, unused, and forgotten superstructure of an edifice which must have been the product of a well conceptualized and articulated idea of a multipurpose Youth Resources Center. My friend only shook his shinny bald held in bewilderment (probably wondering how such a popularized medical University was going to possibly take off from the dungeon I just pointed at) and continued his journey to the land of the rising sun.

Fast forward to February 2021, and I put an elated call through to the same friend of mine to ''come and see America wonder'' at Otada.

The same take-off dungeon now miraculously transformed. Right from the gate, it is absolutely clear that some serious heads and hands must have been at work.

The Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo(with permanent site at Akwete-Akpa) has really taken off at a well fortified and security wired parameter fenced site at Otada. Very visible inside the yard are resplendently looking arrays of buildings. The Multipurpose/Lecture Halls Block has a panache that seems to beckon passersby to behold what it houses. The Administrative Building is no less attractive. Yours sincerely was however awed with what stands as the Office of The Provost. Entering it is to be immediately transported to somewhere outside Nigeria, where things work.

A short walk around the take-off site of FUHSO at Otada would easily conjure the idea of maximum utilization of minimum space. Other massive colourful buildings sitting inside the compound, which is adequately lit by numerous solar lights stands, include an Academic Building, General Labor

Credit: steve anyebe.

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OTADA IN THE GRIP OF THE MALUMFASHI SAGE.

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