University Of Abuja Medical Students Protest For Being In 300 Level After 8 Years

Monday morning, medical students of the University of Abuja blocked entrance to the school, protesting stalled medical programmes at Uniabuja without accreditation.

The students demanded to be transferred to other universities, complaining they were tired of the
school authorities “lying to us, deceiving us, wasting our productive years.”
They have also demanded that the university pay each medical student N10 million each in compensation for the “torture” of attending school for nearly a decade without accreditation.
The peaceful protest prompted the cancellation of examinations set for thousands of distance-learning students.

Early on, the students were met with heavy campus security intent on forcing open the school gates, which the protesters had sealed. Students claim security forced the gates open and threw stones at them, with one insisting one of the security officers ‘used a knife’ on him.

Security “broke down the lock we kept on the gate, they started stoning,” he said. “We were on our own. I was sitting in front of the gate. All of a sudden something came on [my back]. I turned back to see what happened, then I saw a cutlass.”
Officials insist school authorities could not have ordered heavy and armed crackdown on protesting students.

Tortured
Moves to accredit medical sciences at University of Abuja have been stalled for long, and students say they cannot afford to keep waiting indefinitely.