The management of Federal Polytechnic Oko has recently instituted an anti-corruption unit to forestall the incidence of extortion of students by lecturers.

This was made known by the Rector of the Polytechnic, Professor Godwin Onu, during the 30th matriculation ceremony of the institution.

According to him, “There are increasing cases of extortion, excessive charges on text books written by the staff and in some cases, those collected from other authors and sold to our students at exorbitant prices. Students have also reported charges ranging from N1000 to N7500 before project topics are approved and this is not acceptable”.