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 showed 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.
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A particular source who does not want his name in print because he is not authorised to speak to the media, further told Arewa PUNCH that “so bad is the situation such that some lecturers now openly seduce female students threatening to fail them unless they succumb to satisfying their sexual desires.”
The source readily pointed at the case of a certain lecturer in the Public Administration Department and another in the Graphics Design department (names with held) who are said to be currently trending on campus and who at different times were said to have threatened some female students to “either cooperate” and submit to their sexual advances or pay certain amounts of money ranging from N70,000 – N80,000 before they can pass their exams. [The Punch]
