Date: 2013-06-30

At least twenty eight students have again been expelled from the Kwara State University for contravening various offences against the institution's rules and regulations. The students according to the Deputy Registrar, Mr. Shuaib A. Mohammed, were expelled for miscellaneous offences  including examination malpractice, theft,  engagement in physical combat with fellow students, possession of dangerous weapons and membership of unregistered association(s).

The deputy registrar, who spoke with newsmen in his office at Malete, the permanent site of the university said "some of them were expelled for exam malpractice. Some were involved in the act of misconduct, while some belonged to an unregistered association. For example, there was a case of a boy who used knife to fight and injure his fellow students. There was another case of three boys who were caught around 1. am holding a meeting in the bush. They were caught and throughout the panel session, they failed to disclose other members' identities. So we had to expel them."

He said some students' cases  are still pending and that if the investigation team finds them guilty of offences for which they were alleged, they would eventually be expelled too.

Mohammed reiterated the university zero tolerance to any act of indiscipline and anti-social dealing capable of tarnishing the institution's hard-earned image.