Kwara State Polytechnic in Ilorin has issued a statement disowning two female students who were paraded in Abuja over their alleged involvement in the murder of a hotel manager in the state capital.
According to the institution’s management, these students had been rusticated from the polytechnic due to poor academic performance.
The Public Relations Officer of Kwara State Polytechnic, Halimat Garba, in a press statement, titled “Re: How we killed Club owner in Hotel – Female Student,” clarify the situation.
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The statement reads, “The attention of the Polytechnic Authority has been drawn to a trending story and a video clip in which two ladies (Joseph Joy Adama and Vandora Davies Oreoluwa) named 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“Our database checks showed that the two ladies had since been withdrawn from the school after their first years on account of poor academic performances.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”.
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While speaking to journalists during their parade on Wednesday, one of the suspects, Adama said she had been in sexual relationship with the deceased and on that day, they went with the intention to steal from him but when he wasn’t succumbing, they drugged him and left with his phone and other valuables only to discover that he had died.
Recall that men of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, arrested a gang of two females – Joseph Joy Adama and Vandora Davies Oreoluwa Favour – for robbery and murder of a prominent Kwara socialite and Managing Director of Water View Hotel, Ilorin, Mr Adeniyi Ojo.