Fearing further breakdown of order on campus, the management of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, has closed down the institution indefinitely.
A statement by the Acting Registrar of the school, Oyeyimika Koyejo-Fasakin, said the school would remain closed until there was assurance of tranquillity.
Mrs Fasakin said the management took the bold step following students’ alleged plan to continue to cripple academic and administrative activities on campus in the guise of a planned music jamboree slated for Tuesday.
The students started venting their grievances on Monday morning, demanding to write the ongoing semester examinations, in spite of the failure of many of them to complete the payment of their school fees.
A student, who would not want to be named, told journalists that some of them who had paid their school fees in full did not support the protest.
“Some of the students protesting are not even real students of the university,” he said.
“You won’t believe that some of these students, who are disrupting academic activities on campus, had spent the fees their parents gave them on frivolous things. Instead of them to go back home and plead for the fees, they are here disrupting the peace on campus.”
The acting registrar said the management had given three free lecture days for the aggrieved students to confer with their parents on how to complete the payment of the fees.
“The University Management has noticed with concern the evolving issues which surround the students’ protest as regards the ongoing semester examinations,” she said.
“The management has responded by acceding to most of the demands which have spawned the protests.
