UNIBEN PROTEST AND THE AFTERMATH.

On the 23^rd of November, 2017 a message was circulated to various group chats indicating that there would be a “peaceful demonstration” of students in campus in response to:

· Increment in hostel maintenance fee.
Increment in school charges for new students.
Increment in transfer fee.
Nonpayment of work study students.
Increment of price of bread on campus and poor quality of Uniben bread and other services provided by the school.
Poor state of the halls of residence.

A lot of peeps may sound like “we heard this already” but not to worry lets follow it as every road leads somewhere. The demonstrations as peaceful as peaceful as ever was carried out on the 24^th of November, 2017. The senate in its emergency meeting ordered an evacuation of students from hostels for “security reasons”. One would wonder how a peaceful protest could threaten security.

Thereafter, there was no power and water supply in the hostels all in a bid to ensure evacuation, this didn’t suffice, and they went further to threaten to lock hostels.

Let me summarize this epistle to you:- students protested, they were aggrieved and decided to seek a remedy to it protesting peacefully, the management saw it as a threat and decided to send them packing.

Sadly buildings were commissioned and a new mask erected in front of the auditorium, hostels have become dungeons of diseases, rooms infested with bedbug , surroundings inhabited by rats, grounds reeking of urine, walls painted by toothpaste, roofs pumping water and yet over twenty thousand is expected from us for a corner.