The suspects were nabbed during the ongoing second-semester examination for 2023/2024 academic session.
Disclosing this in a statement, the polytechnic’s spokesman, Uredo Omale, said three students of the institution were also apprehended by the school’s security team, for allegedly peddling hard drugs among other offences.
The arrest of the suspects was as a result of proactive measures put in place by the Management of the institution to checkmate infiltration of cultists and other outlawed groups and individuals who were reported to be planning to enter the campus with guns and other dangerous weapons in connivance with some cyber-crime suspects popularly known as yahoo.
To prevent the occurrence, Management decided to intensify further security strategies by banning all forms of the end-of-the second-semester examination on the campus in whatever guise. In addition, the services of the security agencies such as the Nigeria Police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp , and the Vigilante Group were sought and their personnel were deployed.
The Polytechnic Management started observing a dangerous sign on Monday 15th July, 2024 when the Department of Public Administration HND II students wrote their last paper. It was the security arrangement and tip-off that led to the arrest of the three students and their hired mercenaries who claimed to hail from Ekiti State, but based in Abuja.
Prior to the coming on board of the current leadership of the institution under Professor Salisu Ogbo Usman, the Polytechnic was notorious for cult parades at the end of every session, and with cult groups demonstrating their might through gun shots and killing of marked targets to the extent that the past Management, Lecturers and other staff used to abandon the campus for fear of their lives as cultists operated unchallenged during such period.
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