The Academic Board of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, has approved the withdrawal of Provisional Admission of 217 students of the institution for poor academic performance.
The management of the Polytechnic disclosed this in a statement signed by Mrs. Uredo Omale, Head, Public Relations and Protocol Unit of the institution.
She said that the Academic Board also approved the expulsion of Tope Atolagbe, an HND II student of the Department of Library Science with Matriculation No. 2017/HND/LIS/134, for tendering forged documents.
Omale noted that the approval was part of the decisions reached at a meeting of the management held on August 9.
The meeting which was chaired by the Rector, Dr Salisu Ogbo Usman, also considered and approved examination results of students for the second semester of 2019/2020 academic session.
Those withdrawn on the grounds of poor Academic Performance included HND I, Public Administration, 13; ND I Public Administration, 157; ND I Accountancy, 31 and HND I Accountancy, 9.
Others are, HND II Business Administration, 4; HND I, Library and Information Science, 1; ND 1 Computer Engineering-1 and ND 1 Urban and Regional Planning, 1.
Omale that the Board, after due consideration of recommendations of the Students Disciplinary Committee, found Atolagbe guilty of conniving with one Gbenga Ayeni Michael (2017/ND/BUS/1032) to forge documents.
They were said to have illegally tendered the forged documents to obtain statements of result and used same to dupe other unsuspecting students.
Consequently, the Board approved that the result of Gbenga Ayeni Micheal now at large, be withheld until he appeared before the Disciplinary Committee for interrogation.
The Rector also announced that the Dean, Students Services, Engr. Salawu Salihu Ijiji, has been redeployed to Kogi Poly Consults as Director.
In the same vein, Mr. John Friday Otaru who was the Director of the Poly Consults was made Dean, Students Services.
Dr Usman thanked the Board members for their continued support and charged Heads of Schools, Departments and Units to always provide dependable leadership at all times.
