Hundreds of students of Obafemi Awolowo University on Friday asked
President Muhammadu Buhari administration to probe the activities of the
Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Bamitale Omole.
The
students passed the message to the President through the Minister of
Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who was at the university.
They
also bombarded the minister with requests that the Federal Government
should ensure decent hostels for students on the campus.
The
minister was at OAU to deliver the distinguished guest lecture, titled
‘Nexus between corruption and underdevelopment of Nigeria’ at the
University’s Faculty of Arts.
The students had staged series of
protest against poor condition of their hostels which led to the closure
of the school by the management late last year.
“Our halls of
residence are in bad shape and my colleagues are saying probe Omole (VC)
and so on,” said one of the students allowed to ask the minister a
question.
“It is not only at the national level that the
government should concentrate its fight against corruption, it should
come to universities and we welcome President Buhari’s war against
corruption on OAU campus.”
The entire students present applauded
the students, while the minister promised to meet with the VC to discuss
the issue of students’ union leaders under suspension.
The minister urged Nigerians to support the government in the fight, saying corruption had already started fighting back.
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