Rsust Students Protest Vc’s Actions

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Written by Muhammad Bello, Port Harcourt     
Wednesday, 21 October 2009 00:00 

Hundreds of students of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) barricaded the main gate of the institution yesterday, protesting over some irregularities alleged to have been committed by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Barineme Fakai.

The students who defied the heavy downpour peacefully barred their colleagues and staff from gaining access into the university for several hours.

Their grouse, Daily Trust gathered, was against the Vice Chancellor who they said claimed that use of internet facilities in the institution was free while in reality they paid N6000 each to get internet access. Another allegation against the Vice Chancellor was that contrary to his statement that the scratch card used to access their results and admissions were given to them,  each student bought the card at the rate of N6000.

Our correspondent gathered that the immediate cause of the peaceful demonstration was the commissioning, without following due process, of a firm known as CINFOREST, allegedly owned by a son of the VC.

Reacting to the allegations against the VC, the spokesperson of the university, Mr Desmond Wuso, concurred that a token was paid by students for the computer literacy programme approved by the university’s senate. “This programme is only free for staff”, Wosu said, emphasizing that the scratch card is not free anywhere in Nigeria.