Kogi Poly Sets Up Special Committee To Tackle Insecurity, Anti Social Activities.
Idris Ahmed, Lokoja.
Kogi state Polytechnic, Lokoja has set up a special committee comprising academic, non academic and stakeholders within and outside the institution’s community to checkmate criminals and other bad influences.
Acting Rector of the Polytechnic, Dr Salihu Ogbo Usman disclosed on Tuesday while declaring open the 12th national conference of the school of general studies of the institution titled, “The dynamics of nation building and management of social anomie in Nigeria”.
Dr Usman explained that the institution has to take the measure in view of the lawlessness, armed robbery, kidnapping, corruption and other negative influences threatening the peaceful academic and non academic activities of the Polytechnic, which if not checked, could lead to grooming of potential liability of bad Nigerians.
To encourage and ensure discipline on the campus, the Rector announced that his administration has rehabilitated the uncompleted hostels that were abandoned since 2007 with water supplied and reticulated .
He also disclosed that cultism has been fought to a standstill as their activities were not only banned, several members of group have been arrested and handed over to the relevant authorities for necessary actions, while others run away .
Dr Usman said the infrastructural development of the school has progressed rapidly since his assumption of office last year as more academic and administrative blocks have been built to contain and comfort students, lecturers and the administration staff, while road network in the main campus has been completed.
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He observed that indiscipline, lack of sincerity, nepotism, immorality and corruption in the society and in the schools have contributed immensely to the current social malady that has crippled the nation.
” We have now found ourselves at the period of our national history, when lawlessness, irredentist agitations, unemployment, armed robbery, kidnapping, corruption etc are threatening the corporate existence of the country, as Nigerians make life more unbearable for fellow Nigerians,” the Rector lamented.
Dr Usman therefore commended the organisers of this year’s conference for choosing the theme ,The Dynamics of Nation Building and Management of Social Anomie, as it is not only timely, but germane to help in the search for solutions, either human, material and divine to the myriad of problems confronting the nation.
He noted with serious concern about the survival prospect of the nation as some persons he described as diehard pessimists are beginning to waver with various sources and people suggesting restructuring, devolution of power, resource control, secession or outright disintegration of the country.
