SHAMEFUL: UNIBEN VC Prof. Faraday Orumwense rusticate 5 Students For Exposing His Failure

Reactions and open condemnations have continued to trail the rustication of 5 members of the UNIBEN SUG executives over a peaceful protest embarked upon by the students of the institution in response to the astronomical hike in schools fees, hostel accommodation and others charges paid by students.

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The university management led by it Vice Chancellor Prof Faraday Orumwense without regard to the current economic situation in the country and how it will affect the student and their parents and care givers went ahead to announce and publish the new increment without consulting the student Union Government for input.

The student union government after much consultation and deliberation decided to stage a peaceful protest to press home their dissatisfaction with the inhuman increment which coincided with the university Founders day and convocation ceremony. In a swift reaction, the Vice Chancellor other that the school be shut down and that all students should vacate the hostel and return home till further notice.

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On the 12th of December, 2017, management issued another circular that announce the suspension of the activities of the Executive and Parliamentary organ of the students union government, and that a panel had been constituted to investigate what it termed students unrest. Again, instead of addressing the course for which students are taking the pain to protest under scorching sun, the panel, evidently, from students who had appeared before it, turned out to be a gathering of an appendage of the vice chancellor’s office armed with a major question that can be correctly summed as thus: Why did you embarrass the university management?

the five rusticated Uniben SUG Excos

The management claimed that the peaceful protest on the day of convocation embarrassed its national and international image; a “misconduct” which the leadership of the student union and some selected students who were active in the anti-fee hike protest would have to pay dearly for. The Vice Chancellor Prof Faraday Orumwense indeed, had commenced its vendetta and witch-hunt by first suspending the activities of students’ union leaders and now out rightly rusticating them.

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MILITARIZATION OF THE UNIVERSITY

SILNET NEWS gathered that the fear of a continuous peaceful protest, led the management to deployed dozens of heavily armed soldiers on campus. It was as though the University of Benin has suddenly transformed to Sambisa Forest, all the gates that led to the University were suddenly shut, while the soldiers paraded our campus. The mandate of the armed force was to suppress, repress and oppress students protesting peacefully. The brutality exhumed by the soldiers led scores of students who were badly injured flee the brutality, while several unlucky students were mercilessly brutalized in the most horrifying and heartless manner, includingone of the executive who was slapped publicly. Some students were dehumanized as they were ordered to do “frog jump” publicly.

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