Adejayan Gbenga, a former student of the Federal Polytechnic Ede and journalist at the WITHIN NIGERIA, online newspaper has disclosed that the management of the institution has threatened to arrest him over an open letter that he wrote to the rector of the institution, Dr. John Adekolawole, criticising the new increment in fees of fresh students of the school for the 2021/2022 academic session.

The rector of the institution while speaking with newsmen confirmed the increment, which he claimed was necessary due to the new cost of production which he said had astronomically increased. He, however, denied the threat of the arrest.

However, recordings provided by the ex-student revealed that one Mr. Owolabi who claimed to have called from the security department of the institution threatened to arrest Gbenga from anywhere in the country even if he did not honour the invitation by the security department, linking the reason to the issues he had with the rector of the school.

When contacted, Mr. Owolabi said he only talked to him like a father and son.

The chats showed that he subsequently called the judgment of God on Gbenga, who had graduated from the institution in 2017.

“If you don’t desist from such inimical errand, the God of Heaven will judge you and your cronies in Jesus Mighty Name. Amen and Amen.”

Speaking with newsmen, a student of the institution who prefers to be anonymous stated that Dr. Kolawole had been increasing fees since he became the rector of the institution in the 2017/2018 academic session.

“He always increases the new students’ fees every year,” the source said, adding that they had given the management 72 hours to reverse the increment.

WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that students who paid N32,000 and N36,000 depending on their faculties, as fresh full-time students in the 2019/2020 academic session, would now be paying N51,800 as the new fee, which included an “acceptance fee balance” of N5000 which some of the students said was fraudulent as they already paid acceptance fee earlier.

Also, part-time students who paid around N55,350 and N59,350 would now pay N97,300 as the new fee.

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