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Benue University Students Protest Carry Overs by Priceless16: 9:44pm On Feb 16, 2018 |
The students protest that forced
management to close down the Benue State University,
Makurdi was masterminded by students with carry-
overs, according to its Vice Chancellor, Prof. Msugh
Kembe.
“The protest that took place today (Friday) was
masterminded by students with many carry-overs, who
are not sure they will graduate and want to frustrate
the whole system,” Kembe told the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Makurdi.
NAN reports that the students had locked all entries
into the school and barred the management and
lecturers from entering the campus because they were
stopped from writing their examinations for failing to
pay school fees.
Some students, who spoke with NAN on condition of
anonymity, claimed that they could not pay school fees
because their parents working with the state
government had not been paid salaries for several
months.
But Kembe, who described the students’ attitude as
“strange”, said that those involved in the protest did
so out of fear.
“They (students) had no reason to embark on the
protest. It is some of them that are behind in their
academic performance that staged the protest so as to
prolong their stay in the school, and not because of
school fees.
“Citing school fees is not tenable because management
explored all available avenues to enable those yet to pay
their fees, to write the examination.
“We issued forms for such students to sign
undertakings to pay their fees after their examinations,
but majority of the students rejected the undertaking.
“Some of them claimed that their parents were civil
servants, so we asked them to present post-dated
cheques, but the students rejected the idea,” he said.
The Vice Chancellor said that out of 25,000 students,
only 17,000 registered, while 8,000 were yet to register
or pay their fees.
According to him, those that refused to register were
afraid that they might not pass the examinations and
decided not to waste their money.
He advised parents to pick up their children from the
school as it had been closed down until further notice.
“The closure is a proactive measure to avoid
destruction to school property,” he said.
Kembe said that the second semester examination that
commenced on Monday had been put off. |
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