Student Union Government of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife ensured academic activities were brought to a halt on Monday Academic as they protested the alleged increase in acceptance fees for new students.
The authorities of the institution have just announced an increase in the institution’s school fees from seventeen thousand naira to seventy thousand naira incoming students.
This development did not go down well with the students who trooped out to protest what they described as over thirty per cent astronomical increase in their school fees. One of the students who pleaded anonymous said the increment is not justified and cannot stand.
“This fee is actually for the Freshers but there is an iota that it will stem down to Stalites, if we fail to fight now, we might be losing completely.
He stressed further “The SUG decided to adopt the strategy of Negotiation first but after Negotiation the management only decide to deduct 17,000 from the fee threatening to shut down the school”
“Today the Student Union Government has declared a Total Paralysis of activities in IFE so we can sensitize the Public on our Plight and let the school know that we have not lost the Ever ta-tan spirit in us”
But the institution’s public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olanrewaju said the increment became necessary because of inadequate funding by the federal government and the need to maintain academic excellence.
He added that the new fee regime is only for the incoming students and not the old students. “The protest is absurd. Those the students claim they are fighting for have paid up. Many of the fresh students had paid online from home. The fee was arrived at after a thoughtful consideration by management; the fee is legal and considerate.”
All academics and commercial activities within the campus environment was brought to a standstill.
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