The Rector of Kogi State Polytechnic, Dr Salisu Usman Ogbo, mentioned he inherited an establishment the place cultists are demi-gods terrorising college students and employees on campus.
Ogbo disclosed this on Thursday at a press briefing in Lokoja, whereas marking the graduation of actions in commemoration of the establishment’s fourth mixed convocation ceremonies.
The rector disclosed that this set of felony components continued to trigger havoc throughout the polytechnic setting earlier than the establishment administration beneath his supervision curtailed their destructive actions on campus.
In line with him, the current administration of the polytechnic succeeded in tackling the monster of insecurity by fortifying the establishment’s safety structure by way of efficient intelligence gathering on the actions of cultists and different felony teams.
Ogbo mentioned: “These efforts have yielded super outcomes, together with the arrest of some college students and non-students with weapons and different harmful weapons and illicit medication whereas making makes an attempt to enter the campus.
“The safety efforts and techniques additionally helped us uncover the infamous syndicate generally known as “Magic Centre” at Sarkin Norma, the place college students have been nabbed whereas writing examinations with our query papers and booklets.
“Additionally, you will agree with me that the Polytechnic prior to now had deeply disturbing picture points bordering on destructive experiences and different threatening social vices.
“We additionally inherited an establishment with out a practical pupil hostel, poor in ICT, polarised alongside ethnic traces, untidy bodily setting with dilapidated infrastructure and normal indiscipline amongst employees and college students.
“The Polytechnic additionally had a dented picture and severed relationships with related funding companies on account of failed contracts and deserted tasks spanning over 10 years.”
He mentioned additional that the polytechnic had issues with accreditation throughout nearly all programmes for over 9 years, along with issues with accrued convocations after turning out college students at each the Nationwide Diploma and Increased Nationwide Diploma ranges.
“To revive the misplaced glory of the establishment, we launched the Three-R mission of “Restore, Reform and Restore,” which we have now been implementing frontally by way of session and a committee system,” he acknowledged.
In line with the rector, 249 college students can be graduating with distinctions on the fourth mixed convocation ceremony.
He additionally disclosed that 145 college students might be graduating with distinctions on the nationwide diploma degree, whereas 104 might be graduating with distinctions on the increased nationwide diploma degree.
“A complete of seven,653 college students are graduating with nationwide diplomas in varied programmes, whereas 4,427 college students are graduating with increased nationwide diplomas in varied programmes,” he added.