The Academic Board of the Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja has approved the expulsion of 27 other students for offences bordering on examination misconduct.
This came barely 24 hours after a student of the institution was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for unlawful possession of a gun and illegal association.
The Board took the decision followed the consideration of reports of various committees set up to review the conduct of examinations in the institution.
The board is also in the process of withdrawing the certificates of their accomplices, Oladimeji Emmanuel and Ekeono Oluwaseyi, who are former students of the institution, for unworthy actions that portrayed the polytechnic in a bad light.
The board also considered the recommendations of the Academic Board Results Verification Committee and approved the supplementary results of 3,262 students for the 2018/2019 session.
It also approved an offer from the Federal University, Lokoja, to establish its study centre in the polytechnic for the purpose of running programmes such as top-up, conversion, and post-graduate programmes.
Reacting, the Rector of the Polytechnic, Dr. Salisu Usman, restated the management’s commitment to upholding the dignity of the institution through strict adherence to rules.
