The Head of the university’s Communications Unit, Adejoke
Alaga-Ibraheem, who confirmed there was rowdiness at one of the examination
halls being used for the paper, said the students who fainted were quickly
resuscitated by the medical emergency service providers stationed at the scene.
We learnt that an unspecified number of students of the
university were injured, while others fainted on Tuesday while rushing to enter
the examination at the computer-based test centre of the Distance Learning
Institute (DLI) on the campus.
Mrs Alaga-Ibrahim said the university is not happy about the
situation “but we are already working on addressing it.”
Mrs Alaga-Ibrahim said the university is evaluating the
situation to come up with an improved system.
Suspension of exams
In a statement announcing the suspension of the examination,
the management said the decision followed a review of “the issues that have
affected the conduct of the examination in the last two days.”
“Please note that all inconveniences caused by this
suspension are deeply regretted, and a new date/schedule for the GST
examination will be shared appropriately,” the statement read.
Meanwhile, the Parents Forum of the university also reacted
to the development in a statement appealing “to everyone to please be calm and
allow an amicable resolution to be achieved,” Vanguard reports.
“Please know that we are not happy with the experiences that
some of our children went through to write their GST examination yesterday
(Tuesday). We register our outright displeasure and wish to use this medium to
appeal to parents to please calm down and allow appropriate administrative
measures to be applied to rescue the situation,” the statement read.
“Please remember that members of this executive board were
first parents before we became members of the exco, so we also feel the same
pains, and frustrations that you feel. We are all not happy about this. But we
appeal to everyone to please be calm and allow an amicable resolution to be
achieved.”
Students decry power outage, poor infrastructure
Also reacting to the development, the Students’ Solidarity
Against Fee Hike in a statement Tuesday demanded that all exams be halted until
the atmosphere is conducive.
The students also requested that the university provide
proper infrastructure including light, water, and halls spacious enough to
accommodate the students.
The group, in a statement issued, said: “We demand
ultimately that the Tinubu-led Federal Government reverse the fees to status
quo ante, as there is no justification for the wicked hike in the first place.
“Failure to heed the voice of reason will lead to a mass
action, one that the management has not witnessed in recent times.”