Provost RefutesN23m Extortion Allegations, Tasks Media On Balanced Reportage

The provost of Kebbi state, college of health sciences Jega, Alhaji Haruna Saidu Sawwa has described as fictitious, baseless and mischievous the allegations making the rounds that he has convinced with a certain body in Oyo State to extort students of his college to the tune of N23m.

Reacting to reports by some sections of newspapers who didn’t seek his own side of the story that the cause of the students protest was as a result of the introduction of new course in the college which is not true the alleged new course has been in the college for many years therefore to say the school management connived with a certain body is the height of lies.

To further dismiss the claim, he said every student admitted in the college was issued an offer which clearly stipulated duration and the type of course he was given to run, so how can one expect diploma when his admission letter reads certificate .

The said publications carried an unknown source who gave his own version of the story i challenge the person to come clean in his allegations of students extortion and his claim of course duplications ” let me state here in categorical terms that i and the school management have no hand in said allegations of course duplications and extortion, our school operate treasury single account where all monies belonging to the school are paid too and no one has access to the account including me”.

The protest was triggered by the anonymous source of those newspapers who didn’t balance their report but hurriedly went to press to satisfy their pay masters who has been working round the clock to pull down the college with outrageous claims and untrue allegations.

Sawwa urged students and the management to excercise restraint till the true cause of the students unrest is unravel ” but our stand remains we know nothing about the claim and allegations of the unknown source, we are happy no one was hurt and we working with security personnel to nib in the bud the organisers of the protest which affected my personal car and other things belonging to the college, we distance ourselves from the unknown source of the newspapers”.

Meanwhile, normalcy has returned to the college after security agencies intervened and chased away the sponsored protest.