Activities Break Down As Students Move Against UI management.

Thousands of students of the University of Ibadan (UI) this morning went on rampage and shutdown the school over the school’s management victimization of a student who took part in the last protest organized by the students.

The aggrieved students also vented their anger over persistent power failure in the school and lack of water supply.

UI management had added an extra semester to a 500 Level Engineering student, Michael Tunji Epeti for partaking in a protest hundreds of students of the school staged recently to demand for improvement in power supply and lack of water in the school.

Very early in the morning, thousands of students, led by the Students Union President stormed the school gate and shut it while security men at the gate watched helplessly.

Activities at the citadel of learning have been paralyzed as no vehicle is allowed in and out of the school.

Lecturers and others who live off campus could not drive into the school this morning as all gates leading to the institution were shut by the students.

There was traffic gridlock on front of the school and on UI road as the large number of vehicles wanting to enter the school could not do so.

A post graduate student, who craved anonymity, told our reporter that massive crowd of students turned out for the protest and that people were not allowed to snap pictures so that the school’s management would not single out more students for victimization.

He said the students want the management of the school to reverse their decision to impose an extra semester on Epeti for taking part in a protest, saying that until the management reverses the decision, the school gate would remain closed.

He added that the students were also protesting poor power supply to the school as well as lack of water, saying that he did not even had his bath in the morning.

A former student’s union leader of the school, popularly called ‘Tcool’ said the student’s victimization was inappropriate, saying that if the students did not fight it out now, more students would be victimized also.

Recently, the school management forced post graduate students seeking accommodation in the school to sign an undertaken that they would not complain as the school could not guarantee them power supply and water in the hostels.

In early March, UI students on a Saturday also disrupted activities in the school by shutting down the school gate and protested vehemently over poor power supply and inadequate water supply in the school.

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