WATCH: YABATECH students protest lack of basic amenities, preferential treatment
Students of Yaba College of Technology, Epe Campus, on Wednesday embarked on a protest against the school’s management over alleged neglect.
The students, who carried several placards, said the basic amenities in their hostels were in terrible states.
They claimed that the school’s management favoured students at the main campus in Yaba, Lagos over them in terms of provisions of amenities.
One student who pleaded anonymity told Neusroom they have no good water supply, toilets, electricity, bus, among other things, despite paying N59,000 as tuition – same as students on the main campus.
“The Epe campus is not just an affiliated campus, it is still Yabatech. But because we are studying Agriculture and there is no land at Yaba, that was why they moved us down (to Epe) so that we can practice our course,” another student told us.
“We also have other departments here as well. Then there are new buildings being constructed in order to move more departments down from Yaba.
“We have the same Rector, yet we are treated as second fiddle,” he said.
The students said the issues only reached boiling point today, as they had earlier notified the management, particularly their new rector, of the situation of things.
“When students from main campus come here, they provide transport for them, but when we have to go there for a school organised programme, we have to fend for ourselves,” the student told us.
“The last matriculation we had, students had to take buses from here (Epe), even one of the students had an accident on his way to his own matriculation at the main campus.
“For the past three weeks we’ve not had light, the generator has been spoilt and nothing has been done about it. All HODs have their own generators for their own offices.
“The host community itself is like a village, they rarely have light.”
They further said the visit of the new rector to the Epe campus had restored hope of better welfare, but sadly, nothing has changed.
We have not been able to reach the school’s management for comments at the time of this report.
