WATCH: “We have nowhere to go” – UI forcefully evicts medical students over N100,000 tuition
Medical students at the University of Ibadan College of Medicine have been thrown out of their hostels Sunday afternoon over failure to pay additional N100,000 on their basic N49,500 tuition.
The students were left with no choice but to vacate the hostels after the institution’s management threatened them with police, Newsroom reliably gathers.
The institution’s management had added the N100,000 sum on the students’ fees, stating reasons such as inadequate funding by the Federal government, attempt to boost standard of education, buying standard equipment, among others, as the motive for the increase.
The students had found the increment outrageous.
One of the students who spoke under the condition of anonymity, told Newsroom that the management had issued a notice that all students vacate their hostels, but they ignored the notice because it wasn’t properly addressed and didn’t have the registrar’s signature.
“The notice was also too short,” the student told us while he and his colleagues walked under the sun, stranded.
“The letter said we should vacate the hostels by 12noon, but we all have nowhere to go because not all of us stay in Ibadan.
“We were ordered out just a week before resumption (which is next week Saturday).
“Right now, we don’t know what to do or where to go. We’re stranded and are yet to hear from the Dean of Student Affairs or Provost,” he further said.
The students lamented the huge increase on their previous tuition, saying it was unfair by the management.
Earlier, they had said in a statement that the institution’s management had “no justification or acceptable explanation” for the increment.
They said that they were not consulted before the management increased the fee which, if paid, would make Ibadan medical school the most expensive of all Federal Medical schools in the country.
“One out of every three students said they’ll consider dropping out of school because they can’t afford the fee,” the students’ organisation said in the statement.
In recent times, there has been massive exodus of medical practitioners in the country, due to lack of adequate welfare by the government.
