Unijos crisis: Students to pay N6,000 each, as NANS intervenes

NANS President, Tijjani Usman Shehu, said after hours of meeting with the school management, the N12,000 earlier announced by the management as damages for property was revised to N6,000 and also that Students Union Government (SUG) executives were recalled.Students of UniJos had staged a demonstration to protest alleged school fees increment on November 24, 2014. […]

NANS President, Tijjani Usman Shehu, said after hours of meeting with the school management, the N12,000 earlier announced by the management as damages for property was revised to N6,000 and also that Students Union Government (SUG) executives were recalled.
Students of UniJos had staged a demonstration to protest alleged school fees increment on November 24, 2014. The protest led to the destruction of school property and shooting of some students by security operatives. The school authority on the November 25 closed down the school and asked students to vacate their hostels.
According to the president, books were burnt and glasses were shattered with other damages on the school’s property.
“We have seen the level of damage but we still appealed to the management to temper justice with mercy and if that N6,000 can be reduced further, we will sincerely appreciate it,” he said.
Speaking on SUG, he explained that NANS constitution had no regard for a caretaker committee which was set up by the school management to take over the activities of the SUG adding that was why they canvassed for the suspension to be lifted.
The school management had in a statement made available to journalists on Monday said hostels and halls of residence will re-open Saturday, February 21, 2015 while the Second Semester examinations disrupted by the demonstration will commence Monday, February 23, 2015.
It said only students who had complied with management’s conditions which include paying the sum of N12,000 and signing an undertaking to be of good behaviour would be allowed access into the hostels or be eligible to sit for the examinations.
The Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Hayward Babale Mafuyai, while addressing the press, said the school management had taken into consideration every appeal by the Student body but said SUG executives will nevertheless face a disciplinary committee.
He said the school’s fact-finding committee had investigated the remote and immediate causes of the protest with the aim of forestalling a recurrence.
“The report is available and the committee established that what happened was avoidable if the students had followed due process. The students in question will now face a disciplinary committee,” he said.