The spokesperson of the Enugu State Police Command, SP Daniel Ndukwe, has urged newly inaugurated Students’ Union Government (SUG) executives and students of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) to reject cultism and other social vices, embrace responsible leadership, and serve as positive ambassadors of the institution and society.

Ndukwe gave the charge on Thursday while delivering a keynote lecture titled “Choices, Character and Consequences: Confronting Cultism and Other Social Vices on Campus,” during the inauguration of the newly elected ESUT SUG Executive.

Congratulating the new student leaders, the Police Public Relations Officer described their election as a call to selfless service, stressing that leadership is about influence, responsibility and leading by example.

“Leadership is about influence, responsibility and leading by example,” he said, urging the executives to promote peace, unity, discipline and academic excellence while working closely with the university management and security agencies to combat cultism, drug abuse and other social vices on campus.

Addressing the students, Ndukwe noted that although every student enters the university with dreams of success, those aspirations are ultimately determined by the choices they make.

He warned that cultism, drug abuse, examination malpractice, cybercrime and other social vices, often presented as shortcuts to success, only result in academic failure, damaged reputations, criminal prosecution and, in some cases, the loss of lives and promising futures.

“Choose your friends wisely, resist peer pressure, uphold integrity, and remember that today’s choices become tomorrow’s consequences,” he advised.

The police spokesman also reaffirmed the commitment of the Enugu State Police Command, under the leadership of Commissioner of Police Mamman Bitrus Giwa, to sustaining its partnership with ESUT in ensuring a safe and secure learning environment.

He encouraged students to remain vigilant, obey the law and promptly report criminal activities or suspicious persons within and around the university community.

The event was declared open by the Vice-Chancellor of ESUT, Prof. Aloysius-Michaels Okolie, and attended by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ernest Chike Nwoha, the Provost, the Registrar, the University Librarian, the Dean of Students Affairs, other principal officers, former SUG leaders and students.