Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, has
been shut down indefinitely following violent student protest.
The students were reportedly
protesting a 200 percent increase to their tuition fees.
The University’s Public
Relations Officer, Edward Aihevbe, explained in a press statement that the
decision to close the institution was reached after the University’s Senate
reviewed the student protest.
According to him the university’s
senate views the protest as uncalled for and unnecessary, as the students
barricaded the Benin-Ekpoma-Auchi highway.
Aihevbe, denying social media
reports that two students were shot by security agents, said the students
were given until 4 pm to vacate the institution.
“No student was shot. They
barricaded the highway and soldiers escorting an army vehicle that was passing
the road had to shoot into the air to scare the students away,” he explained.
It was learnt that a truck
carrying rice was reportedly set ablaze after the goods were looted by
the protesters, just as some of the protesting students reportedly sustained
injuries.
Campus Gist gathered that management of the institution was earlier
informed of the impending protest, but that it could not mobilize security
early enough to neutralize it before the students arrived at the university’s
gate.
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