The National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS), an umbrella body for all Polytechnics, has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the Rector, Registrar and Deen of students affair of D.S Adegbenro ICT Polytechnic for extortion and misappropriation of the institution fund.
The Public Relations Officer of NAPS in Nigeria, Comrade Olasunkanmi Ijaduoye, made the call in a statement made available to news men in Abeokuta on last week Tuesday .
“The attention of NAPS, an umbrella body for all Polytechnics,, has been drawn to an injustice going on in D.S Adegbenro ICT Polytechnic which aim of the authorities is to extort the students billions of Naira.
The rector of D.S Adegbenro ICT Polytechnic, Dr. Olufemi Fatade have decided to use his doctorate degree to extort over 5,000 families in the name of tuition fee with other abnormal charges. Also, his accomplice which is the registrar and the deen of students affairs collaborate in this acts.
“We can not imagine an institution with over 5,000 students that pays #55,000 and #71,000 for a calendar year in the national and higher national diploma respectively. Other abnormal fee includes, sundry fee of #12,000, developmental fee of #15,000, late submission of file #10,000 and updating of file which cost #5,000. All these do not leave the clearance fee out for freshers. In the 36 states of Nigeria, we have never heard of students’ affairs fee, this institution is the first to do such.
“We urge the students of DS Adegbenro ICT Polytechnic, the reputable government of Ogun state and members of the public to condemn this extortion. We insist that education must not and should not be a “debt” sentence. This matter is therefore a matter of urgent national importance.
“Thousands of Nigerian students in the institution are yet to benefit any meaningful project for three years that Dr. Olufemi Fatade have been appointed, and this is absolutely alarming and contrary to the Anti-Corruption Crusade of President Muhammadu Buhari,’’ Ijadouye said
According to him, NAPS is appealing to EFCC as an ambassador of justice to commence the immediate investigation of the rector, Dr. Olufemi Fatade and the Registrar, Mr Bayo Ogundimu to crop irregularities in the institution.
“It is alarming that a man who is suppose to be passionate, caring and have the progress of students at heart is doing otherwise. Yet, he decided go add #5,000 as a pain affliction on the parents and guardians of the Nigerian students and as such, that is why NAPS is blowing the whistle,’’ he said.