Kwara varsity shut indefinitely over students' protest

Date: 2012-05-03

Authorities of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, in Moro Local Government of the state yesterday shut the institution indefinitely over students' protest.

The students protested that their tuition fees be reviewed downward and their registration reopened even when the semester examination is expected to begin on May 5.

Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed in the wake of the fuel subsidy crisis slashed the fees payable by students from Kwara State by over 30 per cent (from N150,000 to N90,000).

Giving reasons for the closure of the institution, the Vice- Chancellor, Professor AbdulRasheed Na'Allah, said: "We have to do that  because we want to make sure that there is peace on the campus. 

"There are some students who did not register for this academic session. As you know, in any university, when you come in, the first two weeks or so are for registration.  And if you register then, you take courses.  

"We have students who have not registered.  We, however, continued to reopen registration many times. I also opened communication with them and encouraged them to register. We started on Janaury 9, by March after we reopened registration, many times, we had to end it. 

"Unfortunately, those who have not registered, now that the examinations are around the corner, they want the university to allow them write the examinations which is not done anywhere in the world.  

"I guess they want to force their ways. Initially, they protested peacefully, which was okay because we feel students must be active.  

"We should know what they think. But this morning, some of them made bonfires at the nearby bypass and later entered the campus and went to the hostels, trying to force their colleagues to join them. 

"So we realised that the best thing to do is to let them go home so that there will be peace.

"We have always been in dialogue with them.  It is not the entire students.  It is just those who have not registered and all they wanted was for us to reopen portal.  We are a university that is breeding new set of Nigerians that understand laws and regulations and want the country to grow."

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