The administration of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State, announced the expulsion of Susan Isoyo, a female student who was apprehended by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in April 2023.
During a media briefing at the institution on Tuesday, the rector of the polytechnic, Mukail Akinde, made this disclosure.
Reports state that on April 17, 2023, that Isoyo, a 22-year-old Higher National Diploma 1 student of the institution, was apprehended by the NDLEA for allegedly being in possession of codeine-based cough syrup and 283 grams of cannabis, as well as engaging in illicit drug trafficking in the state.
Femi Babafemi, the spokesperson for the NDLEA, confirmed the incident in a statement, stating that Isoyo was arrested opposite the institution’s second gate.
Babafemi had said, “A 22-year-old HND 1 female student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun state, Susan Isoyo, was on Saturday, April 15, arrested opposite the second gate of the institution for dealing in illicit drugs. Recovered from her include 1,100ml of codeine-based cough syrup and 283 grams of cannabis.”
Giving an update on the matter, the rector disclosed that Isoyo was expelled after facing the institution’s disciplinary committee following the conclusion of the investigation by the NDLEA.
He, “When the news went viral, we did not rush to take action because we have a law internally and there are laws guiding the outside campus. We are not in charge of the external law. We allowed the law enforcement agencies to exhaust their laws after which we commenced our own internal rule. Immediately she was released, we commenced our internal process of disciplinary action and I can tell you that the student is no longer our student. She has been relieved.”
Speaking on what the institution is doing to prevent drug abuse among its students, Akinde said that the institution had put a policy in place to routinely conduct drug tests for its students and anyone caught with traces of hard drugs would be expelled.
“We have a policy in place that allows us to test our students whenever we observe anything strange about any student and once we discover that there is a trace of hard drug on any student, we send such a student away regardless of the son of whoever the student might be.
“This has also helped us to curtail the issue of cultism on our campus,” Akinde concluded.