The joint safety crew of Kogi State Polytechnic Lokoja, on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, arrested three college students of the establishment and 5 others suspected to be members of a secret society and onerous drug peddlers.
The arrests had been made through the ongoing second-semester examination for the 2023/2024 educational session.
A press release issued on Wednesday by the Director, Public Relations and Protocol of the Polytechnic, Omale Uredo, listed the scholars apprehended who’re all of HND II within the Division of Enterprise Administration to embrace:
Ajayi Oladipo, Isenre Ayomide, and Omonijo Sunday.
The 5 non-students, who’re all from Ekiti State however based mostly in Abuja Otitoju Christopher, Babatope Ayomide, Isaiah Babatunde, Shina Ayodeji, and Makinde Olalekan.
“The arrest of the suspects was a results of proactive measures put in place by the administration of the establishment to checkmate infiltration of cultists and different outlawed teams and people who had been reported to be planning to enter the campus with weapons and different harmful weapons in connivance with some cyber-crime suspects popularly generally known as yahoo yahoo.
“Their intent, it was gathered, was to trigger hurt to their targets and commotion on the campus through the ongoing second-semester examination.
“This was within the guise of their end-of-examination commencement “celebration” rituals which the Administration had earlier banned as a consequence of safety issues” she added.
Based on her, within the build-up to the continuing second-semester examination, the polytechnic administration obtained intelligence studies that some dangerous components suspected to be into cybercrime, cultism, and illicit medicine had perfected a plan to import their members from different states and establishments to trigger mayhem on the campus.
To stop the prevalence, she stated the administration determined to accentuate additional safety methods by banning all types of the second-semester examination on the campus in no matter guise.