The Management of Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, has given reasons why the student union government was dissolved.
   
According to the school, incessant protests, resulting in breakdown of law and order on campus, formed the major reason for the dissolution.
  
The school said there was no way it could have looked away, while the students continued in their unlawful activities. 
  
The student union government of the university was recently dissolved in the wake of violent protests over increase in school fees.
  
The institution’s management, in a statement by Head, Corporate Communications and Protocol, Mike Aladenika, said despite the Senate’s directive that the university gate should not be shut in the name of protests, the students still went ahead to lock up. 
  
Aladenika frowned at the union’s attack on students who wanted to obey the Senate’s directive to vacate the campus, and held them hostage.
  
“Some of the students were beaten and attacked, while injuring those who wanted to access places of worship on campus. The affected persons reported this action to the police and even threatened to embark on a reprisal attack.
  
“Others prevented members of staff from accessing their offices, while allowing those who are neither staff nor students to access the campus to hold nocturnal meetings.
  
“They also prevented the ambulance conveying the corpse of a departed Professor from entering the main campus of the university, chasing mourners and sympathisers who were at the gate to attend the statutory commendation service in honour of the late professor, and embarking on protests without obtaining necessary approval,” the statement read in part.
  
Aladenika reminded that the school has laid down rules and regulations guiding students activities, adding that a breach of matriculation oath has its prescribed sanctions and consequences.
   
“The first step taken by management was immediate dissolution of the student union and setting up of a caretaker committee to continue the dialogue with management, while those already identified as culprits would be held accountable in due time,” Aladenika said.