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Oyedunmola Olakunle | Ilorin
The Management of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, has called on the Students Union executive of the Polytechnic to desist from activities that have no bearing to their academic career.
Committing the Students Union executive to an agreement on the negative effects of extension of academic calendar, the Rector of the Polytechnic, Dr. Jimoh Mohammed Abdul stressed that a day extension would affect their National Youths Service.
Abdul said,”the “signing out” you are demanding the Management to allow you doing does not have any basis in the constitution of SUG,nor the Students Handbook or any regulation that guide your affairs in the Polytechnic.
“The security situation presently in the metropolis does not favour a gathering of a large numbers of students on campus.
“The management can only allow the signing out Programme on departmental basis.
“Any department that finishes it exams can do the signing out in the department.
“Also, the extension of academic calendar for 2 weeks you’re requesting for, is not realistic, because it will affect your National youths service.
“The Polytechnic does not have any influence on the mobilization of students, and the NYSC has timetables for their mobilization.”
Abdul therefore, advised the Students Union executive to write an undertaking to that effect, noting that the students Union executive will bear the consequences that arise from their actions.
Reacting to the advice, the President of Kwara State Polytechnic Students union executive, Senator Ibrahim Babatunde Korede insisted that the Management should extend the academic calendar for a week,noting that the extension would allow them to finish their research projects before the exams .
Korede also stressed that the signing out event is a funfair for the students pleasure and it will make them relax small from academic stress.
