The rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro in Ogun State, Mukail Akinde, has confirmed the expulsion of a feminine pupil, Susan Isoyo, who was arrested by the operatives of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company, NDLEA, 10 months in the past.
The rector made this recognized throughout a media briefing to usher within the college’s mixed 2024 convocation ceremony on Tuesday.
reporter recollects that Isoyo who was accused of dealing in illicit medication was caught by the operatives of the NDLEA in April 2023, with codeine-based cough syrup and 283 grams of hashish.
After Isoyo was taken into custody and later launched by the NDLEA, the varsity introduced her earlier than a panel which discovered her responsible of the offences pressed towards her and subsequently despatched her off the varsity campus.
Talking with newsmen on the matter, the rector famous that the varsity detests any state of affairs that would carry its title into any type of disrepute.
Akinde mentioned, “When the information went viral, we didn’t rush to take motion as a result of we’ve a legislation internally and there are legal guidelines guiding the skin campus. We aren’t in command of the exterior legislation.
“We allowed the legislation enforcement businesses to exhaust their legal guidelines after which we commenced our personal inside rule.
“Instantly she was launched, we commenced our inside means of disciplinary motion and I can let you know that the coed is now not our pupil. She has been relieved.”
Talking on measures taken to curb a replication of the incident, the rector mentioned the varsity has commenced a routine drug checks for its college students, vowing that anybody caught with traces of laborious medication can be instantly expelled.
His phrases, “We’ve got a coverage in place that permits us to check our college students at any time when we observe something unusual about any pupil and as soon as we uncover that there’s a hint of laborious medication on any pupil, we ship such a pupil away whatever the son of whoever the coed may be.
“This course of has in no small measure helped the varsity to curtail cultism on our campus and we should additionally thank our conventional ruler, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, who has in no small measures helped us to curtail cultism and different social vices.”
