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Irate students at the College of Health Sciences and Technology in Jega, Kebbi State, have set the residence of the Provost, Alhaji Haruna Saidu-Sauwa, on fire and vandalised his vehicle, News360 Nigeria reports.

The protest erupted over allegations that the college management extorted N23m from the students regarding index registration for 250 graduating students.

A source within the college who spoke with our correspondent on the condition of anonymity said the controversy originated from a newly introduced Public Health programme, which was initially d with the Reproductive Health and the Public Health Association of Nigeria.

The source said the college merged the programme with the Department of Environmental Health to secure certification, leading to a demand for an additional N65,000 from each student for index registration, in addition to the N30,000 already paid.

Accusing the management of extortion, the students responded violently by stoning vehicles and setting the provost’s residence on fire.

Some of the college staff fled the scene in fear before security personnel arrived.

Meanwhile, the provost of the school, Sawwa, in his reaction, described as “fictitious, baseless and mischievous” the allegations making the rounds that he had connived with a certain body in Oyo State to extort students of his college to the tune of N23m.

He denied the allegations that a certain course was introduced leading to payment of additional money by the students, which he described as the imagination of those spreading the story.

He said, “The said publications carried an unknown source who gave his own version of the story. I challenge the person to come clean in his allegations of student extortion and his claim of course duplications.

“Let me state here in categorical that I and the school management have no hand in the said allegations of course duplications and extortion.

“Our school operates the Single Treasury where all monies belonging to the school are paid to and no one has access to the including me.”

He alleged that the protest was triggered by the anonymous source of those newspapers who didn’t balance their report but hurriedly went to press to satisfy their paymasters who he said had been working round the clock to pull down the college with outrageous claims and untrue allegations.

He further urged the students and the management to exercise restraint till the true cause of the student’s unrest was unravelled.

“Our stand remains we know nothing about the claim and allegations of the unknown source. We are happy no one was hurt and we are working with security personnel to nip in the bud the organisers of the protest which affected my personal car and other things belonging to the college. We distance ourselves from the unknown source of the newspapers.”

Meanwhile, normalcy has returned to the college after security agencies intervened and chased away the protesters.

Reacting to the incident, the Kebbi State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Nafiu Abubakar, stated that further details would be provided once information from the Divisional Police Officer in Jega was available.

https://news360ng.com/college-students-protest-over-n23m-extortion-set-provosts-residence-ablaze-in-kebbi/

Great!

Now, do politicians.

Hmmm

God bless OAU students.

You vandalized property useful for your conducive learning all in the name of protest.

Now you have moved to the provost’s residence.

These people and Ipob mentality na 5&6.

Noted.

Nigerians are angry and frustrated all over the Country due to the Tinubu’s istration insensitivity & cluelessness.

Namaster:
Great!

Now, do politicians.

You want to try your masters

they'll simply use tribalism and religion to divide them

These northerners are something else when they want to protest. True revolution has to start from then because it seems they aren't afraid of death unlike the southerners.

Destroying your uni bus.
Goat mentality

ABOKI reasoning

they have given the school opportunity to generate more revenue.
FIRST ESTIMATE LOSS TO 5 BILLION NAIRA.

OYA SHARE FINE, GIVE ALL OF THEM.

no payment, no certificate

There is anger in the land, who will pay for the damages and arsoned properties.

God abeg make e spread make we use like this pursue APC

Aboki ideologies

ABOKI


DOINGS



Nurse students behaving like Agbero 😆

They should help us to vandalize the zoo. Wasted energy..

Men dey vex o

.

Two wrongs may not make a right but it makes everybody happy

Una dun do wetin Dey una mind
School go still do their own
Welcome to Nigeria

They will make you ask to build 2 new buildings.....cum an c sumthing week you resume

Good, una do well but make una say na una money dem go use build another one wen go fine the one wen una burn.

Ordinary 28M



Poor people eeeh




We steal in billions

If we can replicate this on politicians then Nigeria will be better

The allegation is the istration wanted a N65K fee for registration card for the course merger. He never addressed that .... the message ... but kept talking about the source of the information ... the messenger.

" When you don't like the message .... attack the messenger."

lgbosCriminals:
Hmmm

God bless OAU students.

You vandalized property useful for your conducive learning all in the name of protest.

Now you have moved to the provost’s residence.

These people and Ipob mentality na 5&6.

Quite funny they even vandalised their Students' bus, or is that not their bus?

Unfortunately, both thise involved and those not involved will be made to pay charges before getting their certificates

Nwaokunkpara:
If we can replicate this on politicians then Nigeria will be better

Starting from obi pandora abi??

I thought the average Aboki gets some form of payment to make them to go to school?

Barbarians! You will still use your money to build it back, idont know why these children don't think, mumus!

those side people .Nah go dem dey hear NOT come.Headquarter of Satan .. dem fit write rubbish in their answer script and submit
Dem go still .Go to Waziri Umaru Fed POLY,Birnin kebbi and sniff around during their exam .