Monday morning, medical students of the University of Abuja blocked
entrance to the school, protesting stalled medical programmes at
Uniabuja without accreditation.
The students demanded to be
transferred to other universities, complaining they were tired of the
school authorities “lying to us, deceiving us, wasting our productive
years.”
They have also demanded that the university pay each medical
student N10 million each in compensation for the “torture” of attending
school for nearly a decade without accreditation.
The peaceful protest prompted the cancellation of examinations set for thousands of distance-learning students.
Early on, the students were met with heavy campus security intent on
forcing open the school gates, which the protesters had sealed. Students
claim security forced the gates open and threw stones at them, with one
insisting one of the security officers ‘used a knife’ on him.
Security “broke down the lock we kept on the gate, they started
stoning,” he said. “We were on our own. I was sitting in front of the
gate. All of a sudden something came on [my back]. I turned back to see
what happened, then I saw a cutlass.”
Officials insist school authorities could not have ordered heavy and armed crackdown on protesting students.
Tortured
Moves to accredit medical sciences at University of Abuja have been
stalled for long, and students say they cannot afford to keep waiting
indefinitely.
“People who were still in secondary school when we
started medical school have already graduated, but look at us,” lamented
Uchenna. “We just want to be transferred to other schools. Let’s start
out lives.”
Their justification for a N10 million compensation comes
from how much money they have committed to studies for the past eight
years — yearly tuition, off-campus accommodation costing up to N200,000
per year.
“It was never our fault. It was in JAMB brochure we applied for medicine at University of Abuja,” said Uchenna.
Among placards on display, one read: “8 years and still in 300 level”
Without MBBS exams since 2005, the medical students — more than 100 of
them so far — have never officially reached their fourth year of medical
study.
“Most of our students have been at home for the past five
years. It is an infringement on our right to education. All the
final-year students in this school met me in this school. For how long
will this continue?” asks one student. “I will only leave this school
when they gave me transfer, and I want the transfer to be done within
the shortest possible time. We are tired of waiting for school
management that are inept in getting issues done.”
Another student
says: “Because hostel accommodation are not enough, we pay N250,000
every year. This is enough for us to go outside Nigeria to school and we
are hoping that one day we will graduate from a university in Nigeria —
and someone is sitting upon it playing politics with out future. We
want to be transferred from University of Abuja. We have been posted for
too long.”
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