By Ademola Onifade
The Polytechnic Ibadan, on Wednesday, destroyed about 1000 phones worth millions of naira, in continuation of its resolve to stamp out examination malpractices, and enforce discipline in the institution.
The phones which were set on fire were confiscated from cheating students during examinations.
The institution’s Deputy Rector, Mr. Bayo Oyeleke, who addressed journalists during the destruction of the seized phones, disclosed that the management had resolved to ensure and protect the fidelity and integrity of its institution’s examinations.
Oyeleke said: “We are here to take further action on our resolve to ensure that the crop of students and products being produced by the school are students with exemplary character; and are those who really work and are worth the certificate of the institution.”
Advising students to work hard and study well, the Deputy Rector disclosed that any student caught cheating would face the full weight of the law.
“There are rules guiding the principles of our examinations and one of it is that no student, under whatever guise, should come into the examination hall with cell phones but you know that some students are very recalcitrant
“We have resolved to confiscate them (the cell phones) because it has been expressly stated on their examination paper that any phone found on any student during examination shall be confiscated. And in order not to allow any of the phones to filter out, the school has resolved that such phones shall be burnt.”