Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and a visitor to Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, on Tuesday ordered the closure of the institution following students’ protest over the presence of members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in the polytechnic.
AG Registrar AbdulHafis Amin issued the directive in a press statement on behalf of the polytechnic management, which affected the governor’s directive.
Recall that the Kwara State Government had earlier designated Kwara State Polytechnic as a temporary Orientation camp for NYSC, whose permanent camp site in Yikpata in the Edu Local Government Area of the state was relocated due to fears of bandits’ attacks.
While the students were away on the Christmas/New Year holiday, two batches of posted NYSC members had resumed on the polytechnic premises, with facilities already designated for their use.
It was gathered that on resumption from the holiday break on Monday, the students were asked to proceed on a three-week break to enable the NYSC members to carry out their camp exercise, which the students rejected.
They became enraged and gathered at the entrance gate to protest.
Vanguard reliably gathered that the students’ protest at the entrance gate became violent when a team of police officers deployed to quell the riot, and teargassed students as they were struggling to gain entrance into the campus premises.
The polytechnic Chief Security Officers reportedly sustained severe injuries before the protesting students were sent away.
The statement by the AG Registrar AbduHafis Amin reads:”The Management of Kwara State Polytechnic wishes to bring to the attention of the general public the current situation within the institution.
As a reminder, the State Government had earlier designated Kwarapoly as the temporary orientation camp for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) due to prevailing security challenges in the State.
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