After working unpaid for two years the group took the state government to court asking for payment of salary and benefits.
In December 2009, the chief judge hearing the case advised that those carrying out torture and assault on the lecturers should desist.
[8] In November 2008, a panel reviewing the Polytechnic issued a severely critical report and called on Governor Murtala Nyako to take action to bail the institution out of its academic paralysis.
The panel noted that the polytechnic had only three accredited programs out of the 33 it offered, and described "apathy, uneasiness" among staff and "a perception of ethnicity and nepotism.
"[9] In December 2009, the State government authorized N20.1 million to be spent on the library complex and the lecturers' residence as well as the school's fencing, which had been abandoned since 2001.
[10] In March 2021, during the course of celebrations after their final examinations, students destroyed facilities in the main campus of the institution.
Students were surcharged for the damages, and only those who paid the levies were allowed back to school to finish their examinations or process their results.