Ekiti Police accuse Crown Polytechnic of shielding rape suspects

Ekiti State Police Command has in strong terms warned management of Crown Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, that it would no longer tolerate the institution’s hoarding of information on crime perpetrated by its students.

This follows the command’s questioning of a top management staff of the school over recent reported serial rape incidents involving some students.

Already, no fewer than four Crown Polytechnic students are in Police custody over the matter. The Ekiti State Police Public Relations Officer,PPRO, Victor Babayemi, who briefed journalists, disclosed that the state Police Commissioner, Sotonye Wakama, had summoned the management over the matter.

The Polytechnic’s delegation will be led by the Rector, Engr Aderemi Oke, Registrar, Mr. David Olukowade and other top management of the institution.

According to the spokesman, “The Commissioner of Police had spoken to them and they did promise that they will do everything within their powers to stop criminal behaviour among the students.

“We also make it a point of duty for them to collaborate with us on how to stop criminality in the institution and report cases of crime to the police for proper investigation”.

Parading seven rape suspects, four of whom were students of the institution, the command’s spokesman expressed the Police Commissioner’s disappointment over the way the institution was hoarding information about rape matters being committed by its students.

The spokesman disclosed the students of the Polytechnic, located along Ado-Ilawe Ekiti road, are usually fingered in rape cases, adding that some of the students earlier expelled by the school for the offence were not reported to any police station.