• Rector, Professor Oludele Itiola
Sodiq Ojuroungbe
The fight against all kinds of indecent dressing by the management of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, has taken its full course on campus, Press Club MAPOLY has reliably gathered.
All personnel of security agencies have stepped-up their operations by monitoring students closely even to the extent of going to classes to check if there is any student who is dressed against the rule of the school and has succeeded in sneaking into the class rooms.
It was observed that the management of MAPOLY has considered indecent dressing as a capital offence in the school campus and has decided to go tough on students putting on crazy jeans, crazy hairstyles, and those who put on slippers to campus.
Hence, students who are caught in the act are being arrested on the spot by security men on campus.
Just like other social vices such as drug abuse, cultism and prostitution, indecent dressing has become a major moral misconduct among students of MAPOLY. Indecent or crazy dressing, which is popularly called “dress to kill” is rampant among students of tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
Meanwhile recent checks revealed that indecent dressing is rampant particularly among female students in the institution all in the name of wanting to look “sexy and fascinating ” at the expense of morals and cultural mores.
Wearing skimpy clothes, also known as “fitted,” strapless and short blouses and sagging of trousers – “low waist” or “ass-down,” by boys and even girls, cleavages and sleeveless shirts, also known as “spaghetti or off-shoulder,” are major moral problems associated with decency in dressing faced in tertiary institutions today.
Apart from the skimpy and tight-fitting nature of these dresses, they are again transparent, revealing certain parts of the bodies that under normal dressing patterns ought to be hidden away from the glare of people.
In the case of the boys, in their effort to achieve a rugged look and imitating the international American gangsters, they end up keeping unkempt hairs and putting on dirty jeans having pockets of holes deliberately created around the knees.
The waist of their trousers are lowered and fastened tightly at the middle of the bottom lobes to reveal their boxers (pants) and when they are walking they drag their legs and one of their hands particularly, the left one, cupping their invisible scrotum as if they will fall to the ground if not supported.
It was however gathered that students arrested for having crazy hairstyles are ordered to cut the hairstyle within a stipulated period, while crazy wears or seductive wears were seized from the students by the management.
Press Club MAPOLY further learnt that some of the students are being asked by the management to call their parents.
It was observed that most of the students arrested are new intakes that are not familiar with the dos and don’ts of the institutions.
While some students argued that the steps taken by the management is the best, some also believe that the management should have at least been given orientation to new-intakes before they begin to implement the enforcement of the law.
An ND I student of the department od Business Administration, Aderonke Ajayi appreciated the effort of the management in maintaining a ‘decent MAPOLY’.
Ajayi further said that what the management is doing would help MAPOLY in the outside to be one of the most responsible institutions across the country.
“What the management is doing is the best and it will help build the reputation school before it public.
“It will also bring the institution into the committee of reputable schools in the country,” she added.
An ND II student of Accounting, Damilola Falola said the management is doing what is needful in curbing rate of immorality in the school campus.
“All I will say is that, the management should be commended in this fight against indecent dressing in fact it should be a fight of all.”
But in a swift reaction, an ND1 student of Banking and Finance department who pleaded anonymity said the management has not given the the fresh students the expected orientation. Adding that most of them do not know the definition of the management on indecent dressings.
She also said most of them arrested by the management are not familiar with the norms of the school, saying that the school should have at least organised an orientation programme where the dos and don’ts would be properly spelt out.
She said, “the management should give the expected orientation before the enforcement of those laws.
“It will be unjust to be punished for violating a rule one is not aware of.”
Also an ND I Accounting student also said “the management does not have the right to give students dress codes.
He added, “most of us are adults and we have the right to put on whatever we want, we are not kids.
“The management has been treating us like a secondary school pupil whose opinion does not count in the decision making,” he added.
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