To curb the cohabitation of male and female undergraduates otherwise known as “campus couple”, authorities of Ekiti State University (EKSU) has promised to build more hostels and make the institution fully residential.
The Vice Chancellor of EKSU, Prof. Samuel Bandele, who expressed concern on the development, said provision of more hostels by the management, well-meaning individuals and corporate organizations would be vigorously pursued to curb the practice.
Prof. Bandele also vowed to punish any lecturer caughtin the web of sexual harassment of female undergraduates.Owing to very limited hostel accommodation on the campus, many EKSU students live in nearby Iworoko community as live-in lovers.
Bandele said: “We are going to build more hostels to house our students on the campus to make them concentrate on their primary assignment as students and this will help us reduce a situation on which they live together as if they are married.“
A situation in which a male student and a female student live together under the same roof and the lady will be cooking and doing other home chores while the male will be providing the money and they will be doingwhat husbands and wives do together and their parents and guardians are not aware of this.
“So, we hope to provide more hostels to bring them to the campus and concentrate more on their academic activities and not to waste their time on living as couples outside the campus.”
Bandele also revealed that a certificate racketeering syndicate in the institution has been smashed stressing that “the era of students not physically coming to classes to write examinations only to be awarded certificates has gone for good.”
He revealed that the Part Time Programmes (PTP) Unit where the scandal used to be common had been sanitized and some lecturers indicted had been sacked from work.
Bandele stressed that anybody who wants the certificates of the school must be deserving of it havingworked rigorously to pass.
He said: “After resumption of office, I discovered that those employed as ad-hoc lecturers under the PTP were cooking marks for students. I said no, this thing must stop and we disengaged their services.”
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