Kogi varsity goes tough on sale of handout, sexual harassment

The Management of Kogi State University (KSU) in Anyigba has warned staff, that textbooks, and harass of students to desist or face the law.

The management said it would not condone any form of extortion of students by lecturers and non-academic staff.

In a statement by the Registrar, Mr J.A. Zhizhi, the university noted that the warning had become necessary in view of several allegations bordering on exploitative sales of unauthorised hand-outs, journals and books before, during, and after registration of students.

Other activities frowned at included deliberate delay of project assessment by supervisors in order to extort gratification, collection of unauthorised levies during defence of thesis and dissertations.

While stressing that the reported cases were being investigated, the management appealed to students and members of staff who may have been affected by these activities to promptly report to management.

Our investigations revealed that aside from money extorted from students on the sale of the hand-outs, journals and text books at exorbitant rates, names of such students are written for undue advantages

“Some members of staff give assignments to students and make them  contribute several thousands of naira each. The staff will then direct the unsuspecting students to town to hire equipment and facilities owned by them to do the assignments.The staff’s private equipment and facilities are poor and substandard, but are hired by students at exorbitant costs, compared to the state of the art equipment and facilities owned by the university, which are never made available to students to use for assignments,” some sources lamented.