Chairman Abubakar Fulata issued the concern in Abuja on Sunday after the committee’s oversight visit on Saturday, appealing to the Federal Ministries of Works and Education, plus the Imo State Government, for immediate road rehabilitation.

He singled out the Obinze–FUTO Road as “virtually impassable” in rainy seasons, causing severe hardship for students, staff, and locals. 

“Vehicles, tricycles, and pedestrians struggle to navigate it,” Fulata said, while flagging FUTO’s lack of perimeter fencing as a critical security vulnerability enabling trespass and land encroachment.At Alvan Ikoku, Vice Chancellor Prof. Stella Lemchi urged JAMB to extend its November 17, 2025, admission deadline, warning that newly NUC-accredited programmes could go unfilled otherwise. 

She also pleaded for reversal of outsourced campus security, currently funded from strained internally generated revenue, and called for rehabilitation of internal roads, especially at the expanding Nworie campus.

In a related appeal, National Institute for Nigerian Languages Executive Director Prof. Ogbonna Onuoha demanded release of the institute’s long-overdue take-off grant and degree-awarding autonomy, over three decades after establishment.

Fulata assured that the House will escalate all concerns for swift federal action, as both universities grapple with pothole-riddled, flood-prone roads that disrupt academics and daily life despite years of appeals.