College students of the Obafemi Awolowo College, Osun State, have staged a protest in opposition to the hike in class charges.
The scholars, who stormed the varsity premises started the protest early Tuesday morning carrying placards studying “Once I dey pay 20k, I dey borrow cash. The place you wan make I 90k? #FeeMustFall”, “I can not afford to drop out. #FeeMustFall”, “My Mama dey promote Fufu, my papa dey experience Okada. The place you gained make I see 90k? #FeeMustFall.”
The Secretary Common of the varsity College students’ Union, Akinboni Opeyemi, confirmed this to our correspondent, including that the scholar populace doesn’t agree with the present tuition price.
The scholars’ union on September 26 urged college students of the establishment to suspend cost of tuition charges, following the slash in price hike by the administration of the establishment.
The PUNCH reports that the administration of OAU reviewed the college charges payable by the scholars of the college.
An announcement by the Public Relations Officer of the college, Abiodun Olanrewaju, said that the administration decreased the charges after a gathering held with the scholars.
Olanrewaju had stated that the College students’ Union leaders had been adamant, insisting that the charges needs to be decreased by 50 per cent.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire, nevertheless, said that the fees initially introduced have been decreased as follows:
“For the scholars in Humanities, the preliminary sundry expenses of N89, 200 for returning college students have been decreased to N76,000 whereas for the brand new college students within the Humanities, the preliminary charges of N151,200 have been decreased to N131,000.
“For these within the Sciences and Know-how, the preliminary expenses of N101,200, for returning college students is now N86,000 whereas the brand new college students in the identical Schools will now pay N141,000 as an alternative of the preliminary N163,200.
“In the identical vein, the returning college students within the Pharmacy and Faculty of Well being Sciences will now pay N109,000, as an alternative of N128,200. The brand new college students in the identical Schools will now pay N164,000 as an alternative of the preliminary expenses of N190,000,” the assertion partly learn.
It added that the college administration has agreed that the cost could be made in two equal installments.
Whereas talking with our correspondent, Opeyemi famous that the union requested a 50 per cent discount of the preliminary proposed price earlier than it was decreased by 15 per cent.
“We wish discount simply as said in our final demand. We wish a discount of the preliminary proposed price earlier than they (faculty administration) scale back it by 15 per cent,” Opeyemi advised our correspondent.
The union earlier demanded that the college administration make it an obligation to reverse the increment in class charges and “all monetary establishments, remita, particularly ignore and droop any cost from OAU pending the time the union will write to them; in any other case, their branches in Ife and OAU campus will likely be shut down.”
“We’ve additionally written to all respective banks to halt the acceptance of price funds from any pupil till a greater decision has been achieved. As a lot as we don’t wish to, we’re at the moment working out of choices and may need to close down all actions on campus and progressively on all campuses all through the nation if the college authorities stay silent on the difficulty,” the union added.
