The management of Kogi State Polytechnic has fired four lecturers for alleged gross misconduct including sexual harassment and victimization of female students, abscondment from duties, insubordination, falsification of records, disobeying lawful order, and diversion of TETFUND training grant, among other things.
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Uredo Omale, the Institution’s Head of Public Relations and Protocol, announced this in a statement on Thursday.
Omale stated that this is part of the decisions made at the Polytechnic 68th Regular Meeting of the Governing Council on March 8, 2023.
According to the statement, the dismissed employees include Mr. Abutu Thompson Okolo of the Department of Language and Communication, Mr. Ipinmoroti Samuel Adejoro and Adegoke Kehinde Vivian of the Department of Architectural Technology, and Sylvester Ojone Blessing of the Registry Department.
Wing Omale stated that Thompson, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Communication, was fired for sexual harassment and victimization of a female computer science student.
She also stated that Ipinmoroti Samuel Adejoro and Adegoke Kehinde Vivian were dismissed for disobeying a lawful order, falsifying documents in order to obtain a training grant, and diversion of the said training grant totaling 22,676,500.00 and 21,204,000.00, respectively.
The institution’s image maker also stated that the Council directed the Management to use all available legal means to recover the sums of 22,676,500 and 21,204,000 from Ipinmoroti and Adegoke, which they fraudulently collected as training grants without completing the training at an approved Malaysian university.
Ojone, Sylvester According to Omale, Blessing was fired for failing to report for duty from January 5, 2020 to July 31, 2022.
Ojone is required to refund N1,356,653.79 in unearned salaries from the government during the period of abscondment.
In a related development, Mr. Aremu Oloruntoba Samuel of the Department of Social Science and Humanities, School of General and Communication Studies, was fired by the Polytechnic for gross misconduct bordering on extortion of students in the name of Continous Assessment (CA).
As a result, one Aremu’s probationary appointment was terminated, and he was ordered to refund the sum of N210,000.00, which was the illegal money he imposed and collected from students for Continuous Assessment (CA)
