The management of the Kogi State Polytechnic has reportedly suspended some lecturers of the Polytechnic following allegations of sex-for-marks, cultism and sale of handouts to students.
Arewa PUNCH investigations revealed that these are acts forbidden by the management of the higher institution, as explained by the spokesperson of the Polytechnic, John Amos Onimisi, who confirmed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Lokoja.
According to Onimisi, “Six lecturers on Wednesday 22nd of July, 2026 were suspended by the management of the institution for unauthorised sales of handouts and textbooks while a lecturer was also suspended for alleged sexual harassment.”
Our correspondent further gathered that the once peaceful atmosphere of the polytechnic which depicted a true centre of academic activities has gradually given way to a hotbed of anxiety as students, especially the female students now live perpetually in fear and uncertainty as cultists’ activities and sex-for-mark syndrome have in recent time pervaded the campus environment.
Sources in the Polytechnic confided in Arewa PUNCH that all the pillars of disciplinary measures instituted by the management of the higher institution have collapsed since the assumption of office by Professor Salihu Sanusi Avidime as the Rector of the polytechnic.
