Kogi Poly suspends lecturer for failing students who didn’t buy handouts

A Kogi State Polytechnic lecturer has been suspended for allegedly forcing college students to purchase textbooks earlier than they might go their examinations.

The Rector of the establishment, Usman Salisu Ogbo (pictured above), disclosed the lecturer’s suspension when the President, Nationwide Affiliation of Nigeria College students (NANS), Comrade Sunday Asefon, alongside his entourage, paid the administration of the polytechnic a courtesy go to on Thursday, September 9.

The Rector, who didn’t point out the title of the employees, stated it’s a clear injustice to the tutorial system for any lecturer to pressure college students to pay for textbooks as a way to go their examinations.

He defined that some forces within the Polytechnic who’re in opposition to his transformation agenda made a number of efforts to truncate the ban on the sale of textbooks to the scholars however failed.

Ogbo stated: “We had circumstances whereby some lecturers would insist that if college students failed to purchase their textbooks, they might fail their examination. We even have circumstances whereby these college students that purchased books and people who didn’t purchase shall be separated. That is pure wickedness.

“Shopping for of textbooks will not be a justification for college students to go their examination. We all the time encourage our college students to learn their books, that’s the reason we insisted that lecturers who’ve books ought to place them in our faculty bookshops and never make it obligatory for college students to purchase them. Regardless of our clear intentions, some cabals should not joyful.”