Management of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, has disowned two female students who were arrested and paraded on Wednesday at the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters, Abuja, over the murder of a socialite and hotel owner in the state.
Gatekeepers News reports the two ladies, Joseph Joy Adama and Vandora Davies Oreoluwa, were alleged to have robbed and murder Adeniyi Ojo, who is the son of Chief Emmanuel Ojo, a prominent figure in Ilorin, Kwara State.
While addressing journalists, Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the suspects claimed to be students of the institution.
“On October 6, 2023, police operatives apprehended the two suspects, Adama and Oreoluwa, who are both students of Kwara State Polytechnic for their involvement in the robbery and murder of Mr Adeniyi Ojo,” the police Spokesman said.
However, in a press release on Thursday issued by the school’s Public Relations Officer, Halimat Garba, the Management denied that the suspects were their students as they had long been rusticated from the institution over poor academic performance.
The statement reads: “The attention of the Polytechnic Authority has been drawn to a trending story and a video clip in which two ladies named Joseph Joy Adama and Vandora Davies Oreoluwa, in the alleged murder of a hotelier in Ilorin were erroneously identified as students of the Kwara State Polytechnic.
“Our database checks showed that the two ladies had since been withdrawn from the school after their first years on account of poor academic performances. They have therefore ceased being students of our great institution.
“The Polytechnic Management states categorically that its students are good ambassadors of the institution, the state, and Nigeria at large, and will not be involved in shameful or criminal acts of any kind.”
