Kwara State varsity condemns students’ protest

The Management of Kwara State University, Malete, has condemned the protestation staged by students of its Study Centre astatine the Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies (CAILS).

It described the enactment arsenic unwarranted and promoted by mischief makers whose volition is to undermine the integrity of the scheduled examinations.

A connection by the Registrar, Dr Kikeloma Sallee, successful Ilorin argued that the claims by the absorption of Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies that it was not carried on successful the determination to alteration the introspection venue were some baseless and mischievous.

“The nationalist needs to enactment that Kwara State University has 2 outer locations for its Sandwich Degree Programme: Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies and Imam Hamzat College of Education.

“These 2 institutions are not affiliated to Kwara State University. Rather, they are survey centres of the University for the sandwich grade programme. This implies that the acrophobic students are afloat nether the medication of Kwara State University.

“The University is truthful not required to question the authorization of CAILS earlier making decisions connected the acrophobic students.

“As such, each sandwich grade students of that survey centre volition beryllium guided by the standards KWASU sets.

“The determination of KWASU absorption to centralize the introspection venue for each the sandwich grade students of the instauration was taken to support the sanctity of the introspection and guarantee standardization of the valuation process.

“This was communicated to each the students successful an predisposition workout conducted by KWASU’s Institute of Education (IOE) connected Wednesday, October 2, 2024.

“The venue communicated to the students is the KWASU Conference Centre, located down Ayoka Petrol Station, on aged Jebba Road, Agric area, Ilorin.

“This was expressly communicated to the students astatine the predisposition workout astir 2 weeks agone and not 3 days earlier the introspection arsenic mischievously presented by CAILS management.

“For the avoidance of doubt, Kwara State University volition not compromise the prime of immoderate of its processes, nor volition the assemblage beryllium swayed by propaganda peddled to coerce it into deviating from its stance connected ensuring the prime of its products.

“The introspection for the sandwich grade programme, which has been scheduled to clasp centrally astatine the KWASU league centre, volition not change, and the affected students are advised to instrumentality note,” the absorption declared.