Akpata: UNIBEN Suspends Students’ Union Indefinitely After Clash On Campus

> The management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), in Edo State, has suspended Students’ Union of the institution indefinitely and with immediate effect. CAMPUS GIST reports that the suspension of the Students’ Union is following the incident that happened at the University’s Senior Staff Club on Friday 12th April, 2024. Members of the Students' Union were said to have invaded an interactive session by staff of the university with the Edo 2024 governorship candidate of Labour Party, Olumide Akpata and in the process reportedly demanded a halt of the event, over alleged claims that they (Students’ Union) were not informed of the event. In the process, a senior lecturer and member of the institution’s Academic Staff of the Universities (ASUU), was reportedly attacked, injured and eventually landed in the hospital. Following the incident, management of the university announced the set up of a panel to investigate the incident with a view to unraveling the immediate and remote causes of the incident. Consequently, in a statement signed by A.A. Bobola, Registrar of the university, Monday, he said the Vice Chancellor has approved the suspension of the University’s Students Union after due consideration of the Panel’s report. The statement partly reads: “The suspension which is indefinite, takes immediate effect, that is, from today, Monday 29h April, 2024. “Accordingly, all Officers of the Students’ Union are to handover all properties of the Union in their possession to the Dean, Students’ Affairs not later 4.00pm on Tuesday 30 April, 2024. “In the interim, a Caretaker Committee composed of representatives of Faculties, Schools and Institutes has been approved to coordinate students’ activities during the period of suspension.” “The above directive of the Vice Chancellor is hereby communicated for the attention of the University Community and compliance of the erstwhile Union Officers as appropriate.” Reacting to the development in a terse statement made available to CAMPUS GIST midnight Monday, the President of the UNIBEN Students' Union, Comrade Alpha-King Lemuel Osahon, called on the students to remain calm, saying, 'we are on the matter.'

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