LASU VC Obafunwa |
The Joint Action
Front (JAF) and Education Right Campaign (ERC) last week joined the students
of Lagos State University (LASU) in protest against hike in tuition fee
and partial resumption of students.
Hundreds of LASU
students stormed the Assembly to express their grievances over what they called
outrageous school fees.
Other demands of
the students include re-opening of LASU portal, adequate funding of the
institution amongst others.
While the students
were chanting protest songs with placards at the entrance of the Assembly, JAF
Secretary, Comrade Abiodun Aremu added that all the students would resume on
24th of February with the final year students.
He advised
the House to avert crisis by reversing the fees being charged by the
institution, saying that JAF members would be at the gate of the school on the
resumption day and that they would disregard law enforcement officers the
school management might invite to harass the students.
In his reaction,
the Deputy Speaker of the House, Hon. Musibau Kolawole Taiwo said that it
became imperative for the fees of the school to be increased, when the
facilities on ground there were not enough.
According to him,
some courses had been dis-accredited in LASU by the National Universities
Commission during a visit to the school.
"I was part
of the lawmakers that went to NUC office in Abuja and we were told that they
were even coming to dis-accredit more courses. That was why we supported the
state government on the need to increase fees to help the school," he
said.
Kolawole however,
said amidst protest by the students that the Assembly would look into the
letter of protest submitted by the students.