No school fees, no examination; Kogi State University students protest as management invites army

Abdulkadir Bin Abdulmalik

Kogi State University (KSU) Anyigba, on Monday staged a peaceful protest against the institution’s directive preventing students who had not paid their school fees from sitting for the ongoing first semester examination.

The students, who took to the Idachaba Lecture theater, disrupted those writing Exam before returning to their various faculties of the institution to continue the agitation.

One of the protesters, who spoke with this reporter said that some students were denied access to the examination hall today in spite of the fact that the state government led by Gov Yahaya Bello has not paid workers.

Some aggrieved students posit that some students who had not fully paid their school fees were the ones protesting.

According to them, the institution’s management had directed that those who had not paid of their school fees should not sit for the examination.

While implementing this directive, they are waiting for the release of memo from the Senate house that will allow the students who are yet to pay their school fee to sit for the examination.

Meanwhile, the management of Kogi State University (KSU), Anyigba has requested for military patrol teams to help implement the ‘No School Fees, No Examination’ policy of the institution.

In a letter signed by the chief security coordinator of the institution, Major Adama (rtd), the Army patrol teams will “jointly operate with other security staff to provide conducive environment for the examination inform of show of force and intermittent campus patrols”.

This, according to Adama, is due to the fact that the management has directed that only students that paid their school fees and other outstanding fees will be allowed to write the semester examinations.

He noted that the policy is already “causing some tension on the campus”