Letter To Yahaya Bello: Save Kogi State University From Cultism.

Gory sight of a Student recently killed by cultists in KSU

His Excellency,
Alhaji Yahaya Bello
Executive Governor of Kogi State,
Government House,
Lokoja.

Your Excellency,

OPEN APPEAL TO THE GOVERNMENT TO #SAVEKSU

We write to draw your immediate attention to the plight of the students of Kogi State University, particularly in the area insecurity on its campus and the menace.

The high rate of cultism in KSU should be urgently looked into from all angles with a view to eradicating it by the government.

Cultism has become one of the greatest problems confronting our tertiary institutions as at today in Nigeria. Their activities and presences in our schools have become rampant and it is no more news that they have expanded their territories into vices such as drug abuse, armed robbery, murder without respect for the rule of law and amongst others.

Recently, there have been spate of killings, robbery and all sorts of crimes in and around Kogi State University campus. Just about a week ago, a girl was stabbed by an unknown person in her hostel and this is not the first, nor the second of such case, it has become a reoccurring trend.

This year alone, about 10 students have been reportedly killed and many more left injured and others robbed of their personal belongings.

Early this year gunshots were heard inside the school environment, which apparently was a gun salute for a cultist who graduated. The "Mr and Miss Campus" that held inside the campus was ended with gunshots. This is unheard of and should not be condoned by your administration which places so much value on the lives and safety of its citizens.

These cult guys no longer hide nor pretend about their activities on campus. The menace of cultism has eaten deep in Kogi State University as we write. The students no longer feel safe in a place where they should feel safe the most. How can they genuinely learn when they are constantly worried about their safety?

Your Excellency Sir, one of your outstanding achievements as our Governor is in the area of security, the more reason we write to draw your rasp attention to this anomaly currently on going in KSU for the students to feel save again, within and outside the campus.

We thereby call on your government to #SaveKSU from impending disaster.

The Government should ensure that adequate security is provided for students on campus, provision of more decent hostel accommodations be built on our campuses.

This effort will discourage cultism and the school management will be able to dissuade studeo from staying off campus, and their activities monitored.

The government should also ensure the completion of the campus fence and steps should be taken to block the numerous illegal entry points into the school. Student's ID cards should be enforced by the school management and school security.

We appeal to your government to ensure that any member of the society, no matter how highly placed, found linked with the activities of cultism on campus should be tracked down and brought to book and students caught be expelled immediately.

Government should initiate and encourage campaigns against cultism in the institution and promote extra curricular activities on campus.

All these we plead.

Thank you Your Excellency.

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