Rector Charges Students to Shun Cultism

Former Rector, Delta State Polytechnic, Otefe, Prof. Temi Akporhonor, has charged fresh students of Edo State Polytechnic to shun cultism

The Professor of Analytical Chemistry, who made the charge at the 18th matriculation ceremony of the institution, stated that only rigorous work ethic would guarantee academic success.

Edugist gathered that the Edo State Polytechnic has recorded tremendous changes in the last two years under the leadership of Prof. Abiodun Falodun with the support of the Governor Obaseki-led administration and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), among other stakeholders.

While delivering a lecture entitled “Academic Failure, Cultism and Immorality: the Three Musketeers”, Prof. Akporhonor, said academic failure was as a result of a number of factors stemming from wrong choice of course of study, poor language skills and associating with wrong social groups, such as cultists and ‘runs babes’ on campus.

“Many students have cut short their academic pursuit and dreams because of cultism. They are chased out of campus by their fellow cult members, rival cult members or suspended, rusticated or expelled by their institutions because of their involvement in cultism. By that, they have cut short their academic dreams thereby becoming societal waste not only to themselves but to their families and society,” he said.

“In a nutshell, cultism, examination malpractice and prostitution on campus are fundamental and potent evils which lead to fatal academic failure. Anybody who gets involved hardly succeeds. The functional and credible advice, therefore, is to avoid them as one avoids a leper.

“The best cure to them is abstinence. They are cankerous worms, which are capable of destroying the entirety of the individual’s life, cutting short the academic and lifelong dreams and making such a victim a societal nonentity,” he added.