The Acting Vice Chancellor of the Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Prof. Opuenebo Binya Owei, has appluaded the university’s Alumni Association, 98/99 Set, for the donation of security towers in the university campus.Commissioning the project recently, the Acting Vice-Chancellor said it was thoughtful of the 98/99 Set of the Alumni Association to remember their alma mater and donate a worthy project that would contribute to the security of lives and properties in the University.Prof. Owei said that the gesture demonstrates a godly move and likened it to various accounts recorded in the Bible on how God remembered certain individuals and did something remarkable for them. She called on other Alumni groups to emulate the 98/99 set, who chose to remember their Alma Mater for good, stressing that they should not forget the institution that trained them in character and in learning.She expressed gratitude to God for the completion of the project and for giving her the opportunity to commission it as the sitting acting Vice-Chancellor of the University.
Earlier in his address, the National President of the Alumni Association, Ambassador Israel Egbunefu thanked the 98/99 set for embarking on the project, noting that it has become the tradition of the association to look out for areas of need in the University and provide intervention and assistance.
Ambassador Egbunefu assured the management of the university that the alumni body would continue to partner with her in realising the dreams of the founding fathers and in achieving the vision and mission of the university.
In his remarks, the Chairman of the 98/99 set, Engr. Kennedy Barango, said his members conceived the project, believed in it and contributed towards its actualisation and further stated the set’s commitment to improving the standard of the Institution.