The Kogi State Polytechnic has been shut down indefinitely by the management of the institution.
In a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr. Luke Yakubu on Tuesday in Lokoja, the move was to forestall further breakdown of law and order in the state owned institution.
Reports gathered that the students of the institution went on rampaged over the alleged killing of a female student by a commercial motor cyclist popularly called okada rider.
While protesting on Tuesday, all vehicular movement on the Lokoja-Abuja road was disrupted as the students in their hundreds took over the road, burning tyres, in protest of the death of their colleague. It took the intervention of armed mobile policemen to bring the situation under control.
