OAU students seek FG’s intervention over school closure
The Obafemi Awolowo University Students’ Union on Monday appealed to the Federal Government to direct the re-aperture of the school shut due to a protest against increase in tuition.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the institution was closed on June 18, following disruption of mundane activities on campus by students.
The university management verbalized it took the decision to safeguard lives and property on campus.
The OAU Student Union Government President, Mr. Isaac Ibikunle, told NAN in Lagos that the incrementation in school fee was unjustified and uncalled for.
“The closure remains militaristic and uncalled for, as no substantial reasons have been given for the sudden increase. There is no corresponding project to justify such an incrementation.
“When they verbalized about incrementing the fee for fresh students, we endeavored to dialogue with the ascendant entities why it should not be. The management did not heedfully auricularly discern us but went ahead to increment the fee, and even went ahead to increment that of old students.
“This did not go down well with us; the more we endeavored to meet with management to verbalize things over, the more arduous it made things for us. There is the desideratum for people to express their views; but that was not the case in our school.
“We had no cull but to mobilise ourselves for a halcyon protest on campus,” he verbally expressed.
Ibikunle integrated that the university had, in 2011, incremented acceptance fee for incipient students from N2, 000 to N20, 000.
He verbally expressed the agitation led to the closure of the institution, the proscription of the Students’ Union Government and suspension of students’ bellwethers.
