MOUAU students at the verge of protest:
If Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU)
Abia State is a Federal University the debate to the panel of
judges who are parents and sponsors will be difficult to
distinguish from being a Private, State, or Federal university
since in two (2) consecutive academic session has
experienced fees increment of almost 100%.
The only Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan named hostel is 240000
naira (per room) just for an academic session which is less
than six (6) months.
All fresh students were compelled to pay for this hostel
accommodation before they could proceed with their
registration.
Due to limited room units many of the freah students who
paid for accommodation in the Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
hostel has been stranded for the past 4 months and till the
moment of this post their payment haven't been refunded to
them.
2014/2015 First semester exam will begin by Monday and no
provision has been made towards the welfare of the stranded
students who paid by compulsion hostel accommodation. And
this is how it was in 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 academic
session students paid for hostel accommodation for IBB
hostel and till today some who paid did not get
accommodated and their payment not refunded.
On the 15th of January some affected students paraded
themselves to the admin block and they were addressed by
the VC.
An eye witness said that after they had informed the VC about
their dissatisfaction and how they are stranded he addressed
them saying that they have the choice to take to the street but
they should remember that they are not yet matriculated
students of the university and so he can as well deny them
their admission.
Lately students are fainting and suffocating inside lecture
halls due to lack of lecture halls.
Now even while we cry and morn for the fees increments
students who went to bank for payment of school fees are
asked to pay 10,000naira for late registration and a student
will be allowed to write the exam by presenting receipt for
fees payment.
I am not an sug official but as a concerned I have written
letters to the management appealing to them for
reconsideration of fees, compulsory hostel accommodation
and what they did was to send security and their thugs after
me.
20th January I appeared before the security and they tortured
me with bullying words compelling me to accept that Michael
Okpara University Of Agriculture pays the cheapest of school
fees all over Nigeria.
We have SUG where the SUG president emerged unopposed
and so are hibernated over the situation at hand.
We have formed groups and written to the SUG for an open
hearing they tactically turned it down.
We don't know if fees increments are from the Federal
government or from the school management, humbly we are
appealing to Federal government to please consider the
economic factor of the disadvantaged whose hope relies on
education many of which as the case may be will be deprived
writing exams for failure to payment of school fees.
Please we need intervention to help the lives of Nigerian
students in MOUAU as we are helpless and on a daily
forecast the situation tends to a violent outburst.