Students of Osun State University,
Osogbo on Tuesday staged a protest over what they described as
management’s “no school fees, no examinations” policy.
The students had assembled at their
campus gate around 7am and shut the gate against lecturers and other
workers of the institution.
THISDAY gathered that some of the
students were yet to pay their school fees for the session while others
have paid half and yet to balance up.
Upon commencement of the Osun state
government-owned university’s second semester examinations on Monday, it
was gathered that some students, including those in their final year,
were chased out of the examination halls and prevented to write their
papers by the management.
Angered by this, the students mobilised
themselves on Tuesday and boycotted their ongoing examinations
demanding
that the management should revert the policy of ‘no fees, no exams’.
The banner carried by the students
during the peaceful demonstration read: “Student joint campus committee,
Osun State University. We emphatically say no to anti-students
policies. No to ‘no school fees, no exam policy’, poor students welfare
and infrastructure.”
Speaking, one of the protesting students
who identified himself as Michael, said the students have been paying
their fees promptly blaming the present economic crunch and inability of
some state governments to pay their parents’ salaries as the reason for
the delay in paying their fees.
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