Ekiti State University Vice Chancellor, Prof. Samuel Iye-Bandele, on Sunday warned students involved in cultism and secret society groups to relinquish their membership.
He threatened to expose those who fail to heed his advice.
Bandele told newsmen in Ado Ekiti that the university was fed up with the terror usually unleashed on law-abiding students.
He condemned attacks launched on the university community towards the end of last year and the murder of two students.
According to him, the management has launched a manhunt for the perpetrators and their external collaborators, stressing that suspects who failed to repent would be dismissed from the institution.
He announced that future admission of students would be strict as screening would go beyond perusal of paper qualifications.
Iye-Bandele said: “Our determination is to leave this university better than we met it by turning out students who will be worthy in learning and character and anyone or group of miscreants trying to constitute clogs on the wheel of our plans will not be spared.
“If parents could toil day and night to ensure their children or wards excelled in their studies and become responsible citizens in future, I wonder why such children should get to school and choose to look the other side.
“It is not our intention to punish those who reconsider their ways and voluntarily renounce membership of such groups, because the Bible says God does not want the death of a sinner but for him to repent and change his old ways.”
The VC thanked Governor Ayo Fayose for assenting to a law that prescribed life sentence and death penalty for cultists in the state.
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