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Tuesday

BREAKING: PANDEMONIUM AGAIN IN THE POLYTECHNIC IBADAN

BREAKING: PANDEMONIUM AGAIN IN THE POLYTECHNIC IBADAN
Sequel to the resumption fixed at tomorrow, Wednesday, 8th May, 2019 by the Management of the institution, there were rains of gunshots as some unknown men disrupted the peace at the South campus entrance of the institution on Tuesday afternoon, 7th May, 2019.
The incident began some minutes to 4 in the afternoon, where various properties were damaged ranging from private cars, tricycles, the commercial bus, and the security house at the entrance of the Institution.
A eye witness said, “those people were three with two holding guns, and one with axe. They were in blue top and black beret. When they came, the security men manning the gate ran for their lives as they were shooting in the air as well as destroying cars with the axe.”
Before the security operatives would reach the venue of the situation, the perpetrators of the acts have left the scene.
photos from the scene of the pandemonium

SCHOOL RESUMPTION DATE AND DAMAGES FEE OF #2000 TO BE PAID BY STUDENTS – MANAGEMENT


The Management of The Polytechnic, Ibadan has fixed the Damages fee at #2000 as students are expected to resume back on campus on Wednesday, 8th May, 2019. This was earlier discussed at the Town and Gown meeting held on Monday, 6th May, 2019 at the Assembly Hall, North Campus of the Institution.
In his opening address, the Rector of the Institution, Professor Adekunle Adebiyi apologized to the parents who attended the meeting earlier before the time scheduled for all inconveniences. He further expressed that the meeting was organized to dialogue the issues which couldn’t bring about the logistics for resumption sequel to the female tournament on 3rd of April which later resulted into a full-blown riot on 4th of April.
He added that, students gave wrong contact of their parents which made it difficult for the necessary information to be passed across to their parents. Conversely, he emphasized on the duty of Landlords within the school environment to always take note of oath of occupants because both students and non-students seek accommodation, so as to know the kind of occupants they are giving their houses to.

In her address, the Registrar, Mrs. Modupe Fawale, spoke on the issue of moral, discipline and monitoring of students on the part of the parents. She added that indecent dressing has been a critical issue on campus as a result of parents’ negligence and ignorance of their children’s activities on campus. She, however, emphasized that students found guilty of any dubious activity would be dealt with accordingly and as well as making broadcasts on various media platforms.
While speaking on the resumption date, Mrs. Fawale stated further “the school resumes on Wednesday, 8th May, 2019, and each student is expected to pay damages fee of 2000 Naira through the school’s portal.”
In her remarks, the S.P. Sango Police Division, Joyce urged parents and guardians to ensure the proper monitoring of their wards’ conduct in the society so as to ease the efforts of the police in curbing the illicit acts in Oyo state metropolis.
Furthermore, various questions were raised on the appalling level of Security on campus, refund of Hostel fee, instilling discipline with the use of ID cards, Health, and environment. In the Rector’s response to the issue of Identity cards, he stated that plans are in place to ensure issuance of ID cards, and that most students are yet to pay their tuition fees not to mention the completion of their registration.
Similarly, in his response to the Refund of hostel fee, the rector assured the parents that the fees will be refunded in two weeks by forwarding letters to the management of the institution after necessary investigations will be conducted.
From the office of the Directorate of Students’ Affairs, it was announced that Parents, Guardians and Landlords can lodge complaints, as well as give urgent and vital information, and advice to ‘directoratestudentsaffairs@gmail.com and studentsaffairspolyibadan@gmail.com or contact and text 07089018916.’
Source: presscounciltpi.com.ng

Saturday

Stay away from school, the school will not resume now-Registrar



The Management of The Polytechnic Ibadan has assured the stake holders in the institution, particularly the students and their parents that the institution will soon reopen for student

A statement from the institution signed by The Registrar MRS MODUPE THERESA FAWALE disclosed that the student who were given mid-semester break on 4th April 2019 and billed to resume 10th April 2019 could not do so because the Management was fine tuning the logistics for their resumption.

The Management observed that there has not been ELECTRICITY supply by the IBDEC due to major electrical fault to the institution in the last three weeks which virtually makes resumption difficult has the institution cannot perpetually rely on Diesel generated electricity which in all ramifications will not provide sufficient electricity supply for the students.

The Management further observed that since student would commence their First Semester Examination almost immediately after resumption, every logistic to ensure their smooth stay has to be put in place.

However, students are still expected to stay away from the institution until management directs their resumption.

Thursday

Management should do something to late Mobilization- Concerned Graduates


The concerned graduates of The Polytechnic, Ibadan has published a post for wide publicity over the failure of the management to mobilize them for NYSC.

The post published by the concerned students is as follow:

It's important to note that This Great citadel of knowledge has always been lacking behind in the Area of mobilization.

It is of this note that we write to express our dissatisfaction in the way fresh graduates of the institution are been treated.

Many of us have the ambition to further our education both in Nigeria and Abroad,but the late mobilization for the one year mandatory NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE CORPS (NYSC) has always jeopardize this ambition.

Furthermore, so many employment opportunities had been wasted due to unavailability of our certificates,
It's six months already since we wrote our final exams!

It is worth to note that due to one reason or the other the institution couldn't convocate for the 2018 graduates, it is of this note that we expected the institution to at least mobilize us for 2018 Batch A which never happened.

We are using this medium to appeal to the institution Authorities to come to our aid and rescue us from further time wasting.

Registration for BATCH B 2019 commences around May, the management should please set a deadline for the departments for our results to be ready nd so doing sent to the NYSC board to be uploaded to the senate list before Batch B registration commences.

If nothing is done within the necessary period of time, we would not hesitate to walk a peaceful protest within the campus.


SAY NO TO DOUBLE I.T( Industrial Training ) , we did one after our ND we can't afford another one before Going for service..

Long live TPI!
Long live oyo state!!
Long live Nigeria!!!

Monday

FORUM IS NOT A SECRET CULT AND WE DON'T BEHAVE LIKE TOUT - ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT FORUM


It come to our surprise when we started seeing some post online coming from Comr ADENIYI the Sports Director of NAPES and the Head Coach of FENG Female football team that it was ''Student Forum'' that stab him and injure some of his players during an ongoing QUEENS CUP on 03/04/2019 between FENG and FBCS.

We want to use this medium to inform the general public particularly all the students that all the post are blatant lies, in fact, we have to go through thorough investigation and we have found out that, it is the supporters of FENG that generate the whole issue by 'booing' the FBCS players earlier the second half of the match.

According to the eyewitness who claim to be anonymous said,''the matter arose at the second half of the match,when the FBCS team score a goal and the FENG supporters go against the decision of the referee and suddenly crowded the pitch including the Sport Director and interrupt the match and told their players to vacate the pitch that they are no more playing, this made the SUG Sport director to attend to them and discuss with them amicably but they remain adamant, since they did not concord with the SUG sport director they order the players to come back to the pitch for final whistle. After the match has officially come to an end the FENG supporters started shouting ''SOUTHERNER!!!'' and also intimidating the FBSCS players that,if they see any of the FBCS players at South campus they will harm the player, this statement aggrieved the FBCS supporters and they started agitating and reporting the statement to the school security that is on ground immediately.

''Forum'' did not know how the Sports Director is being harmed or injure and we are not on the ground to know how the fight or the issue erupted, we don't interfere into an unnecessary issue like that. How can ''Forum'' stab a student because of football competition, people should think about it. Forum members are not from one faculty of the school, we have members across the faculties including FENG and we are everywhere of the campus; North, middle belt and South campus.

We want to remind Comr ADENIYI on their first Match against FESSA when some of their supporters who happen to be Aye Fraternity which he is also a member, stab the President Of Urban and Regional Planning. Nobody agitates neither protest or cause unrest on the campus.

Comr ADENIYI should have followed due process for his protest before he started using his cult members terrorizing the school and disrupting the academic activities in the campus and outside the school, it is a shame on him as a comrade. We want the public to desist from such news that ''Forum'' are the mastermind of the stab of Comr. ADENIYI and the injuring of any students after the match.

FORUM is not a secret cult and we don't behave like a 'tout'. We have been working with the school security to maintain peace and tranquillity in the school and also protect the students outside the school. We know what is right and we don't want anybody to tarnish our reputation.FORUM has known to be a peacemaking organization and we have been maintaining that for years.

We urge Comr ADENIYI to never trespass to our boundary and talk to his co-cult members of Aye Fraternity to never disturb the peace of the school. We are not afraid of war, we decided not to stop his disruption activities since School Management did not give us go ahead, but if he tries to come for any students, we will make sure they are nab and handover to legal authority because we are not a coward.

We pray for all the students that attain injuries during the protest quick recovery and want all the students to remain calm and make sure they resume back to school after the mid-semester break; as the school is already working on perfect security in the campus.

''We urge the school authority to reinstate our STUDENT UNION GOVERNMENT and work on ADEQUATE SECURITY IN THE SCHOOL'

GREAT FORUM!!!

Friday

School Management Suspended Student Union Government Activities Till Further Notice


The Management of The Polytechnic Ibadan has suspended the activities of the Student Union Government of the institution on Thursday 4th April, 2019.

The reports gathered are that the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr. Soladoye Adewole, disclosed this in Ibadan on Thursday in an interview.

“The students engaged in a fight after a female football tournament organized by the student union.
“There was a misunderstanding among the supporters, which led to breach of peace at the institution.
“As a result of this, management decided to suspend all student union activities until further notice.

“It was the union that breached the regulation of the institution through the programme it organized.”
Reports are that the gate of the institution has been shut by the students.

However, security personnel are present in the school premises to forestall breakdown of law and order.

Mid Semester Break

mid semester break

The Polytechnic Ibadan management has approved mid-semester break from Thursday 4th April, 2019 to Wednesday 10th April 2019 and students are to vacate the halls of residence immediately.

All students are required to resume back to school after the mid-semester break.

Thursday

FAKE NEWS ALERT! Students tagged Poly Ibadan News Blog to their rumored post - POLY IBADAN NEWS TEAM


We the Poly Ibadan News TEAM got information about the news that circulated on social media using our brand name POLY IBADAN NEWS BLOG and tagged with the rumor and false information about the school on April 1st known as FOOL DAY. We will like to announce to you that the rumor or false information wasn't published on our blog and neither was such posted on our platform by any of our team. We, therefore, advise the public and students to disregard the information.

Image result for the fake news

We were able to put a call through the person who forwarded the message until we reach the original writer of the said rumor information whose surname is Oyelami from the Faculty of engineering. We accused the original writer of sharing false information using the influence of our brand name and thereby misrepresenting our brand name. See his response below. 


We further up our claim and advise him never to tagged our brand name anymore because we won't hesitate to take legal steps against him. See his response below. 


Another writer whose nickname is MAC-ALOH also claimed that he wrote the rumor as well. See image below.


We hope this will be enough proof for the public to know that the information shared is not from our source. We know that POLY IBADAN NEWS PLATFORM has continued to grow its audience so large since 2017 and has always been one of the best sources of information in the school for the students and its environs. We are not surprised that a writer took pride in our brand name and to use our influence to make themselves popular without full authorization. People don't go after a platform that doesn't have influence or value. Using our BRAND NAME is not the problem but using it negatively is what is totally wrong.

We the POLY IBADAN NEWS TEAM has come together to put our structure in place in order to fight against fake news so that this won't occur in the future. 

THE POLY IBADAN NEWS PLATFORM has never and will never indulge in sharing information not confirmed to be true from the school management first. Our team verified every information being share to our platform and we will always do our possible best to be of continual value and of service to the students of The Polytechnic Ibadan.

OUR CONCLUSION: Fight against fake news, confirm news before sharing.


The Poly Ibadan News TEAM.

signed
Ifeoluwa D. Ojo
Director of Poly Ibadan News

Saturday

Fees increment: NANS vows to shut down The Polytechnic Ibadan


The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has threatened to shut down The Polytechnic Ibadan over the astronomical increase in tuition fees by management of the institution.

The Students Associaion (NANS) says in a statement jointly signed by its leadership, Mr. Adeyemi Azeez, NANS National PRO and Mr Adekitan Adebisi, NANS South-West Coordinator on Friday in Abuja.

It expressed displeasure over the increment noting that the poor had the right to be educated in the country.

“NANS condemned this in totality as we cannot continue to watch our fundamental rights being turned to a source of revenue by the anti-poor and anti-students government.

“NANS describes this increment at this trying period for civil servants as a deliberate attempt towards making the future of promising Nigerian students to become sudden academic dropouts.”

The leadership of NANS also alleged that the present administration by this increase was making education not affordable to the sons and daughters of the poor.

The association however, called on the government to reverse the school fees to status-quo to avoid industrial action.

“Failure to adhere to the above ultimatum, NANS national leadership shall mobilise en-mass for protest on Thursday, Jan. 10, and shut down activities in Oyo State.

“NANS hereby directs all students not to pay the school fees until NANS informs otherwise.”

Tuesday

We wish you all merry Christmas and happy new year


On behalf of the Team of Poly Ibadan News, we felicitate with all the greatest and the noble students of The Polytechnic Ibadan, all Nigerians, particularly our Christian faithfuls , on the joyous occasion of this  "year’s Christmas, which commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ.

Christmas season is an auspicious occasion to show love and reflect on the life of Jesus Christ, whose birth we are commemorating.

Christmas as a season that explained the depth of God’s love for mankind and exemplary sacrifice that people should emulate in their relationship with neighbours irrespective of status and creed .

“As we celebrate with our friends, relatives and neighbours, seize the symbolic occasion of Christmas to extend acts of love and kindness to all mankind in the society. Also enjoin you to spread the message of oneness, love, generosity and hope for greater things as demonstrated by Jesus Christ.”

Using this avenue to support the SUG in it struggle with the Say No To Fresher's Tuition Fee Increment and to be of good conduct before, during and after Christmas celebration.

Moreso, most of the the newly admitted candidates are being texted via SMS messages by the School Authority that failure to pay their Tuition Fee on or before January 04, 2019, that their admission will be forfeited, kindly implore them never to make such payment till further directive from the union.

 Happy new year in advance, may we withness many of this celebration on Earth with good deed, sound heath, riches, wealth with endless Mercy and have a better hereafter, yours in struggle.

MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎅🏻🎄

 Signed✍:
Team- Poly Ibadan News....

Thursday

SUG assaulted over peaceful walk against increment in tuition fees

On the 13th of December, 2018, the Students' Union Government of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, presided by Com. Akadiri Bayonle Seun decided to have a peaceful walk to express their feelings of discomfort about the recent increment in the tuition fee.

The peaceful walk which started from the Students' Union Building in North Campus, to the South Campus of the school was disrupted at the Sport Pavilion of North Campus by the School Security Personnel. The disruption which led to the President of the Union, Com. Akadiri Bayonle Seun being assaulted, and their placards being destroyed, was spearheaded by the Chief Security Officer of the school.

In the post "peaceful walk" talk with the President, Com. Akadiri Bayonle Seun, he said, "This isn't a protest, this is just a peaceful walk of solidarity to reinstate our stance on the no increment of the tuition fee and yet, I was assaulted, slapped and in the process, lost a button of my shirt."

The Students' Union Government, with this, redirected their  peaceful solidarity walk to the Directorate of Students' Affairs office where the Dean, Dr. Sikiru Ajibola implored the Union to exercise patience, maintain calmness and not retaliate consequence of the assault. The Dean furthered that, the agitations of the Union being poured out through letters have been sent to the appropriate offices, and that the Board of Governing Council of the institution will take the necessary steps of action.

Below is more photo snapped at the peaceful walk against the increment of the school tuition fee.


We pray the school management reconsider and reduce the tuition fees.

Monday

Note this before paying your tuition fees




This is to inform you to hold on before proceeding to pay your tuition fee as the STUDENTS UNION GOVERNMENT (SUG) had forwarded a note on media due to the increase in the tuition fees, The notes goes thus:

STUDENTS UNION GOVERNMENT
THE POLYTECHNIC, IBADAN

Attention:

It's so disheartening and uncalled for, for The Governing Council of The Polytechnic Ibadan that has planned and implemented school fee Increment for newly admitted students.

But our efforts in negotiating with the management for total reversal of the increment is proved abortive with the word SAY NO TO INCREMENT

After deliberation with the management, they insisted that the tuition fee must be increased by certain percentage not total reversal as we are clamoring for.

The tuition fee was already increased by 10% last session and acceptance fee had already been increased this session

So, having not been able to reach compromise with the management,  the management went ahead with the increment in the tuition fees to be paid by the newly admitted ones which was increased by 50% levied on newly admitted students.

We hereby urge all the concerned student's not to make any payments till further directive by the union. 

Its our believe that the increment will be reversed totally without any increment if this note of ALUTA is strictly followed.

Kindly be patience and give Maximum support in any means or whatsoever.



Amount of Tuition Fee to pay




This is to inform all Daily Part-Time Programme (DPP) students that the management of the The Polytechnic Ibadan had released the amount of money to be pay as tuition fees by students.

Below is a picture showing more details about the fees:

Thursday

ASUP to begin Nationwide Strike on 12th December, 2018



The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has declared that it would begin an indefinite strike from Wednesday, December 12th, 2018.

ASUP lecturers will join Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) who have been on strike for a month.

In a phone interview with PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday morning, the National President of ASUP, Usman Dutse, said the federal government had failed to meet the demands of the polytechnic lecturers.

Prior to this impending strike, the union had on October 2 issued a 21-day ultimatum to the government before it extended it to November. But even then, it did not commence the strike.

But Mr Dutse said the proposed strike would be “total and indefinite”.

“This further emphasises the resolution of the 93rd National Executive Council meeting reached at the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos last week,” he said.


“Government has failed to implement and fulfil agreements it reached with the union as contained in the memorandum of understanding signed,” he said.

ASUP went on strike in November 2017; but when the federal government reached an agreement to implement the recommendations of the 2014 NEEDS assessment, the strike was suspended 15 days after.

The agreement particularly highlighted the need for increased funding of polytechnics.

Mr Dutse also said the roles of state government and the National Assembly is not encouraging when it comes to funding the education sector.

“The issue of the funding of the institutions has always been a major concern. After the government conducted the NEEDS assessment in 2014, it promised to implement it. Years after, there is no designed roadmap to implement that,” he said.

He said the bill meant to review the act on the establishment of polytechnics in the country was yet to be passed by the National Assembly. He said the union was hoping that the strike would also help fast-track its passage.

“The institutions are not funded. The states are even worse because state governments just establish schools without actually funding those schools. So, no infrastructure is in place,” he added.

The ASUP president also alleged that some state governments were owing salaries for up to 14 months just as institutions victimise union leaders who voice out against what he termed injustice.

“We have states that are owing about 14 month salaries. Some owe eight months. Benue, Ogun, Osun, Edo, Kogi are owing up to as long as 14 months,” he said.

Saturday

DPP: 1st Batch List of Admitted Ones.



This is to inform all aspirants that applied for Daily Part-Time Programme (DPP) that the 1st batch list of admitted ones has been uploaded to the portal.


This is to advise all aspirant to start checking their portal as the names of the admitted ones is been uploading continuously.


If you think you scored low in Jamb and you wish to gain admission this year, I hereby advice to quickly go to cyber-cafe to collect the DPP form before it is too late.


For the ones that have applied for DPP before and you have not been offered admission, I hereby announce to you to keep calm as your admission is coming soon.


Pray to God and have faith.


To the newly admitted ones, you don't have any business with jamb as far as you apply for Dpp, You only need The Polytechnic Ibadan admission letter for clearance and others



Stay tuned to know when the 2nd batch admission list is out.


HAPPY MATRICULATION IN ADVANCE TO YOU ALL.

Thursday

PolyIbadan announced the date for her convocation


The management of The Polytechnic Ibadan has announced her convocation ceremony date for National Diploma & Higher National Diploma Graduands for the 2017/2018 has been announced.

The Polytechnic Ibadan in her recent announcement has scheduled Friday, December 14th, 2018 as her convocation day.

The general public especially all National Diploma and Higher National Diploma Graduands are invited to the convocation ceremony of the institution.

The school hereby enjoins the graduating students to do the necessary registration for their graduation.

Wednesday

Steps to take for a successful clearance and biometric registration


Below are the steps ND FULL TIME NEWLY ADMITTED STUDENT are to follow for a successful clearance and biometric registration for the 2018/2019 academic session;

Documents needed for the clearance exercise:
*    POLYTECHNIC IBADAN APPLICATION SLIP (A.K.A POST UTME FORM)
*    ACCEPTANCE FEE RECEIPT
*    POLYTECHNIC IBADAN ADMISSION SLIP
*    O'LEVEL CERTIFICATE
*    JAMB ADMISSION LETTER
*    JAMB ORIGINAL RESULT (HAVING YOUR PICTURE)
*    6 PASSPORT PHOTOGRAPH (HAVING RED, BLUE OR WHITE BACKGROUND)

You're to make 3 photocopies each for these documents

N.B.: 2017, 2018 O'level certificates are not ready for issuance, therefore come along with clear copy of the printout.

The clearance is scheduled as follow:
Venue of ND full time clearance: Conference Centre, beside ICT building, Wema Bank, South Campus.
Time: 8am - 9pm Mondays - Thursdays (Friday 8am- 2pm)

Locate your faculty at the clearance ground and mark the attendance

      FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES
MARKETING
MASS COMMUNICATION
MUSIC TECHNOLOGY
OFFICE TECHNOLOGY & MGT
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
PURCHASING AND SUPPLY
     FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
CIVIL ENGINEERING
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING
     FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (FES)
ARCHITECTURE
BUILDING TECHNOLOGY
ESTATE MANAGEMENT
FASHION DESIGN & CLOTHING TECH
ART & DESIGN
QUANTITY SURVEYING
SURVEYING & GEO-INFORMATIC
URBAN & REGIONAL PLANNING
     FACULTY OF FINANCIAL AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES (FFMS)
ACCOUNTANCY
BANKING AND FINANCE
INSURANCE
     FACULTY OF SCIENCE (FSC)
Geology
SCIENCE LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY
STATISTICS
COMPUTER SCIENCE
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

Your success is our concern.

Friday

NANS tells Ibadan Poly management to withdraw N32,000 acceptance charge


The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has urged the management of the Polytechnic, Ibadan, to with immediate effect; withdraw the N32, 000 acceptance charges for the newly admitted students of the institution.

NANS Spokesman, Adeyemi Azeez Amoo, in a statement made available to journalists on Thursday described the charge as “fraudulent extortion”.

He pointed out that the leadership of the students body had met with Minister of Education in its bid to ensure a better and affordable educational status for students.

According to him, one of the issues discussed at the meeting was “the regular abstract charges of acceptance fee by schools.”

The statement read, “The President of NANS, Comrade Danielson Bamidele Akpan, has directed that the management of the Polytechnic of Ibadan, should as a matter of urgency withdraw totally the acceptance charges of N32,000.”

“We equally warn the polytechnic not to dare alter the status quo of the tuition fee as paid in the last session.”

“NANS can not afford to watch education been taken away from the access of the sons and daughters of the poor.”

“Finally, any attempt to negate the above directives from the NANS national secretariat by the management of the polytechnic Ibadan, NANS national leadership shall relocate its secretariat to Ibadan Polytechnic.”

BREAKING: This is a must read for all aspirants of Poly Ibadan

This is to inform everyone aspiring to do one course or the other in The Polytechnic Ibadan to debunk any message that says you have been offered admission into the school and you should pay some fee in a private account.

The school is yet to give admission to any one and didn't request anyone to pay any fee now.

This is the work of scammers and the school authority has been informed about this act which makes the school to send message to all aspirant.

The message goes thus:

"Prospective students are to informed that the 
polytechnic ib has not offered admission to any candidate,
 ignore any message asking you to pay into private account. 
Visit the institution website for current information on 
admission."

Those that has been offered admission on JAMB CAPS should wait for the school admission list before paying any fee to anybody or private account.

JUST IN: Nine (9) cultists held for ex-Ibadan Poly student’s murder




Police in Oyo State yesterday paraded nine suspected cultists who reportedly confessed to have been involved in the murder on August 27 of a former student of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Olatunji Hammed (aka Maku) at the Apete area of Ibadan.

Parading the suspects at the state Police Command Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abiodun Odude, said the cultists were arrested in Ibadan by his men at the Sango and Apete Police Divisions following a discreet investigation carried out by the Anti-Robbery Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID).

He said: “Those arrested have confessed to their membership of the Aye Confraternity and they are agents of Lucifer, masquerading as cultists, causing unrest in The Polytechnic, Ibadan and its neighbouring communities.

“Their nefarious activities took another dimension when they mowed down a former student of the polytechnic in cold blood at Apete area. They were arrested by our men of Anti-Robbery Section of the SCIID.
“The suspects were arrested with various arms and ammunition with other exhibits. They will soon be charged to court for proper prosecution.



Odude gave the names of the suspects as Fatai Akinola (33), John Amgbare (30 who is 2nd in Command in the cult group), Oladapo Tope (28, from whom a gun and cartridges were recovered), Sodiq Adekola (25) and Oludayo Olumide (33).
Others are Aremu Paul (24), Adebiyi Oluwajuwonlo (30), Martins Adegbegi (26) and Ogunfuwa Oriyomi (20).



Exhibits recovered from the cultists are one locally-made cut-to-size single-barrelled gun, two axes, cutlasses, charms, calabashes and other fetish items.

Speaking with our correspondent, one of the suspected cultists, Akinola, confessed to be the Number One member of the Aye Confraternity in The Polytechnic Ibadan.

He said: “I am a student of The Polytechnic Ibadan. I am the number one of the Aye Confraternity in Ibadan, but I am not the one who killed Maku, and I don’t know who killed him.

“Though I learnt that the deceased had a quarrel with one of us, (Sunday, popularly called Apata, who is now at large), and I am aware that our group had a clash with other groups. But I still can’t really say if the deceased died in the process because we had settled the matter. But later I got to know that the matter had gone beyond our own settlement. I am not the killer of Maku. I am just a suspect.”
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