Cultism Allegation: Why Rector Of Federal Poly Ilaro Is After SUG President – NANS
By ABIODUN JIMOH, ABEOKUTA
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has revealed the reason why Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro (FPI), Dr. Olusegun Aluko is after the Students Union Government (SUG), President, Comrade Emmanuel Olatunji.
At a press briefing held on Sunday in Abeokuta, Comrade Ojo Raymond, Vice President, NANS National disclosed that it was due to all attempts to cage the SUG president from raising some fundamental questions as regards the management of the institution resources and pertinent issues on students welfare most especially increase in student accommodation fees by private hostel operators of which the rector also has a business concern was not yielded to by him.
Ojo stated further that the National Executive Council of the NANS having review the report of the fact finding mission set-up by NANS on the allegations of cultism and illegal arrest of Comrade Olatunji, one of their senator’s in NANS, who also is the SUG President of Federal Polytechnic Ilaro, made it bold to say that it is a clear case of victimization to destabilize the union.
He said: “We are not unaware of the antics of majority of our institutions administrators in using the instruments of blackmail, victimization and of course intimidation to destabilize unionism in most of our campuses with pronounced aimed of making the union stooges in their hand.
“The drama surrounding the arrest of the Students’ Union President of Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Adegboye Emmanuel Olatunji most especially as it relates to the allegation of cultism levied against him by the Nigerian Police Force, Ogun State Command was orchestrated by the Rector.
“When all attempts to cowed him from raising some fundamental questions as regards the management of the Institution resources and pertinent issues on students welfare most especially increase in student accommodation fees by private hostel operators of which the rector also has a business concern was not yielded to by him.
“And this is evident in the quick manner in which the management of the institution suspended him without giving him the opportunity to defend himself in line with principle of fair hearing as guaranteed and enshrined under Section 36 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).”
Meanwhile, the students body hereby callef on the rector to immediately and unconditionally reinstate Comrade Olatunji pending the outcome of the ongoing investigation of frivolous allegations against him.
