KSU Goes Tough on Sales of Hand-outs, Sexual Harassment

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The Management of Kogi State University, Anyigba, has warned staff of the University, who engage in sales of hand-outs, books, or indulge in other forms of extortions and sexual harassment to desist or face the wrath of the law.

In a strongly-worded memorandum signed 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 unauthorized hand-outs, journals and books before, during, and after registration of students.

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

While stressing that the reported cases were being investigated, the memo appealed to students or members of staff who may have been affected by these evil activities to promptly report to management via SMS using mobile number 08184537107.

The KSU news gathered that some members of staff do compel students to buy hand-outs, journals and textbooks on the courses they teach.

Aside from money extorted from students on the sale of the hand-outs, journals and text books through exorbitant rates, names of such students are written for purposes the staff may deem fit.

Endless delays of project assessment in order to exhort favours in cash and/or kind have become the order of the day, a practice that is being gradually perfected with reckless abandon, sources said.

“Some members of staff give assignments to students and make them (students) to contribute several thousands of naira each.

The staff will then direct the unsuspecting students to the 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,” the sources lamented.

Some staff had been punished in the past for indulging in such vices. The current move by Management is therefore seen as a renewed effort to stem the tide.

Source: Graphic Newspapers


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