Lafia — About 133 students at the Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa in Nasarawa State were expelled for offences bordering on certificate forgery and examination malpractice at the past academic session.

The Rector of the institution, Mr Pius Salami who disclosed this during the matriculation ceremony for the 2007/2008 set of students said the expelled students cut across all departments of the school.

About four students, he also said, were caught for cult related activities in the institution.

The affected students according to him, belong to a cult group outside the institution and were apprehended while trying to recruit unsuspecting students within the polytechnic into their fold.

Salami said beyond outright expulsion for offences such as cultism, examination malpractice among others, the institution is also putting up measures to ensure that students caught in any act of misdemeanor were prosecuted.

He warned new intakes with fake certificates to quietly withdraw from the institution in their own interest as the machinery to weed out bad eggs was already in motion, stressing that those caught would be made to face the full wrath of the law.

He also urged the matriculating students to comply with the institution's policy on dress code introduced sometime last year to check indecent dressing among students.

Over 4,000 of the 8429 candidates that applied for various programmes were given admission for the 2007/2008 academic session.