PHOTOS: UI Students Stage Protest Over Power Outage

Students of the University of Ibadan, have staged a peaceful protest to express their grievances following power outage at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan for the past 82days.

The protest started from the UCH main gate through Total Garden to State Secretariat, Agodi Ibadan with the students carrying placards with various inscriptions like “Restore Our Electricity, We are suffering”.

Speaking, the President, Students’ Union, University of Ibadan, Mr Bolaji Aweda said, students of the University of Ibadan at the College of Medicine, UCH, are mostly residents at the Alexander Brown Hall and Ayodele Falase Postgraduate Hall, stressing that they have passed through hardship due to lack of Water and Electricity, which had affected their health and studies.

While addressing the Protesters at the State Secretariat, Ibadan, shortly after submitting their demands through a letter to Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, the Executive Assistant to the Governor on Security, Mr. Sunday Odukoya commended the Students for their civility and comportment in expressing their grievances.

Mr. Odukoya promised to relay their message to the Governor for further step on their demands.

Security men from the Nigeria Police, Nigerian Army and Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, were on ground to maintain law and order during the protest.