ENUGU— Angry students of University of Nigeria
Nsukka,
UNN, Enugu Campus have shut down the school.
Lectures
were not holding for about one week and the non-
academic
staff were not allowed to work in their offices.
The angry students were demonstrating against poor
academic environment. The students, who turned out
in their
numbers at the campus gate to protest poor academic
environment, yesterday, would not allow the staff to
move in
or out as security officers lock ed the gate.
The students, it was learned, had not had steady
power
supply for three months and had relied on generator
and
intermittent power supply from EEDC.
Apart from epileptic power supply or lack of it, the
students
complained that their hostels stank because they
lacked water
and they buy a bucket for N30.00.
The students who spoke to Vanguard, equally
lamented that
they lacked enough accommodation as too many
students
were pitched in a room and they slept on mattresses
long
overdue for change. They equally paid for Wi fi
services but
they were not enjoying it.
Overwhelmed by these grievances,the protesting
students
carried placards that read: 'How can we save lives
without
light, light is our right, no light no lectures.'
Speaking with Vanguard, the students said that, "Life
has not
been easy .Our mattresses are bad. We are too many
in a
room.
"We paid for Wi fi, but we are not enjoying it,” they
pointed
out in unison.
"We are demonstrating against the school
management. We
don’t want any movement in the school," the angry
students
declared as they blocked the entrance, chanting
songs.
The public relations officer of the university, Mr.
Gabriel Onah,
in a telephone interview, said he was at a meeting at
the time
of filing this report and would react afterwards on
the issue.
However, a lecturer, who refused to disclose his
name, told
Vanguard that the students were doing the right
thing.
“The students are right. The school management is
not
helping matters. They will not listen. Now for one
week, there
have been no lectures,” he said.
Post Credit:Vanguard.