BEYOND KSU : UNILAG Begins Victimization Of Students Over Protest Against Poor Welfare On Campus- SAHARA REPORTERS

 The authorities of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) have see
up a Senate Disciplinary Panel to punish students believed
to have participated in the recent protest on campus.
Already, the panel has started inviting the students for
interrogation in a bid to punish them for lawfully expressin
their dissatisfaction with the deplorable welfare conditions
in the university.

The authorities of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) have
set up a Senate Disciplinary Panel to punish students
believed to have participated in the recent protest on
campus. Already, the panel has started inviting the students
for interrogation in a bid to punish them for lawfully
expressing their dissatisfaction with the deplorable welfare
conditions in the university.
The move is an extension of the punitive action against the
University of Lagos Students' Union, which resulted in the
suspension of its constitution as well as the executive and
legislative organs of the union just one year after these
were restored by the authorities. On 8 April, the university
authorities issued a school closure and vacation order to all
the students in response to their protest through which
they demanded solutions to poor water and electricity
supply on the campus.
But on reopening the university, the authorities ejected all
members of the Students' Union from their campus
accommodation, citing their protest against poor welfare in
April. In newspaper publications, the university authorities
attributed the students' demonstration to exuberance and
accused the Students' Union leadership of lacking integrity.
So far, the disciplinary panel has invited nearly every
member of the suspended Students' Union.
 A source familiar with workings of the university authorities
told SaharaReporters that the move is part of a plot to
distract the students from launching a fresh protest for the
restoration of the suspended union.
The source added that the students have launched a social
media campaign for the restoration of the University of
Lagos Students Union (ULSU) under a hashtag
#RestoreULSU. This, he added, has caused the authorities
huge embarrassment, forcing them into a crackdown on
students leading the agitation.


SOURCE : SAHARA REPORTERS