Alleged assault by LASU VC sparks students’ protest

Protesting students of Lagos State University have said that the assault launched against one of their colleagues by the institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. John Obafunwa was actually what triggered off the violence protest. The protest had gone up for second day when some aggrieved students who said the University Portal had been closed against their […]

Protesting students of Lagos State University have said that the
assault launched against one of their colleagues by the institution’s
Vice Chancellor, Prof. John Obafunwa was actually what triggered off
the violence protest.

The protest had gone up for second day when some aggrieved students
who said the University Portal had been closed against their
registration had besieged faculties of law, social sciences and the
MBA building in the early hours of thursday.

Some of the students who spoke with Daily Trust correspondent who was
at the Ojo campus of the institution said the protest which began
yesterday was not designed to take a violence approach not until one
of their colleagues who was said to have gone and knelt down before
the Vice Chancellor was alleged to have been kicked away.

“We were not meant to be violent. We just want the management to have
a change of heart and allow extension in the registration process. We
can’t imagine 1,292 students not registered not to partake in the
exams and one our colleagues have only gone to beg the VC and beg him
to have a change of heart when the VC kicked him out of sight,” Jamiu
Alade, a 200-level student of Microbiology said.

More details later.