UNILAG IN UPHEAVAL- STUDENTS SENT HOME

CLOSURE OF THE UNIVERSITY.
Following the ongoing agitation by the student body over poor electricity &power supply on campus, the Senate held an emergency meeting on Thurs.7/4/2016 to review d situation.At the meeting senate noted that the issue of poor municipal services is a national one. In order to forestall further breakdown of law &order, senate directed that the University be closed
down with immediate effect.It further announced d suspension of all academic activities till further notice.All students are hereby directed to vacate d halls of residence not later 10 am on Fri.8/4/2016.


  
  FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS STUDENTS UNION MANAGEMENT

"It is unfortunate that despite priding itself as the university of first choice and the nation's pride, the University of Lagos Management cannot manage this simple issue. The Vice Chancellor has demonstrated his insouciance towards the welfarism of the students. Despite his availability on campus today, he refused to avail the students of his presence.

In light of this public display of irresponsibility, the Union wishes to state that:

1) It is an inhumane move with a dastardly motive to demand the vacation of students from the University community. This is because it has got to the notice of the Union that certain hoodlums are around the school to waylay students who are trying to leave the school.
2) Also, students who leave in distant areas have confessed that they do not have transport fare to transport themselves home. This is understandable as the notice for vacation just got to students this morning at about 6:30, leaving us with less than 4hrs to vacate.

This is a display of lower drunkenness and gross irresponsibility on the part of the VC and the University Management as a whole. They have displayed that they do not have the interest kg the students at heart. They have shown that they are misfits with regard to parenthood. 

Hence, we implore the students to stay in school so that they won't be victims of circumstances. Hoodlums are everywhere and leaving the school now is dangerous. 

The Union is on top of the situation. All students should remain indoor until further information by the Union.

SIGNED:
ULSU EXCOS
[9:25AM, 4/8/2016] PETER: WE THE PEOPLE, WE THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS SAY NO TO MILITARY RULE BY THE UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS MGT.

WE ARE PEOPLE, WE ARE EDUCATIONISTS. WE ARE STUDENTS. WE DEMAND BETTER STUDENTS WELFARE, ENOUGH OF EMPTY PROMISES.

EDUCATION SAYS NO TO MILITARY RULE BY THE SCHOOL MANAGEMENT.

EDUCATION IS OUR RIGHT NOT A PRIVILEDGE.

SAY YES TO EDUCATION. WE WANT TO STUDY. THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT SHOULD BE MADE CONDUCIVE!!!

#WE ARE PEOPLE,AND NOT TERRORIST

As for those who were arrested;

"We wish to announce to you that we have been released from the police station and we are back in school. Our phones remain seized though.
We urge students to join the protest but resist the urge to engage any acts of violence or vandalism. We also endear students to avoid confrontation with policemen on campus.
We are in the struggle together.
Remember this day, for it will be yours for all time.
P.S. 
Be prepared for the worst"

Yours in the struggle,
Jumai AF, ULSU PRO

SIGNED
Comrade Muhammed Olaniyan
ULSU PRESIDENT


Here is what the press club has to say;

 ⁠⁠⁠DECAPITATION: The UNILAG's antidote to decapitation

Don't we have a right to an understanding agitation?

Have we lost our senses by being students?

Do we need to remain docile at the face of disservice and inefficiency and ineptitude?

We have been unjustly gagged.

In as much as the University of Lagos tries to cover its million's secret, we refuse to be gagged on the path of truth. The University management as at April 8, 2016 acted out its ideological bankruptcy with its Immediate Closure of the University of Lagos still trying to cover its mess just like it has always done. A simple, non-violent protest by concerned students to ventilate her dissatisfaction towards: Inadequate supply and shuffling of Electricity, Scarcity and intentional hoarding of Water (Sachet Water), and also hike in the prices of goods and food, all attributed to dollar increase, among other issues.


All the students requested for was an address from the VC as the school head and Public Administrator instead he took a turnaround to a satanic, luciferous and immoral thought and act because we disharmonized with the silent suffering going on in campus by employing men of the Nigerian Police Force, armed to the tooth to assault and pick up armless and harmless students. Here, whatever ill luck is generated from this as a result of the action of the heavily armed men, these would be attributed to the management of the University of Lagos and also will face the brunt.

The students of the University of Lagos has endured this bitter, unconducive and threatening experience for long thus staged a protest to reveal all of these but for the School to ameliorate its image, it had the school shut down accruing it to intangible reasons of breakdown of law and order. It is high time we communicate to the management that protest has gone intellectual and has transcended the era of vandalism and thuggery.

When there is a difficult solution, we should not compound it by embarking on school closure rather proffer solutions. In as much as we agitate for better welfare, we anticipate a University of Lagos that runs on a full academic calendar without closure which will. Truly corroborate its first choice institution and Nation's pride.

The Press Club, UNILAG, hereby courteously requests that the school rescinds her decision and addresses the issue as swift as possible hence proffering solutions to the above stated agitations rather than covering up its mess.

SIGNED:
THE PRESS CLUB, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS



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