NANS threatens to shut varsity for sacking SUG’s president

Unless the tussle between the students and the management of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka is resolved, the institution may be shut.

This followed the alleged expulsion of the President of the institution’s Students Union Government (SUG), Mr. Noble Eyisi.

The Coordinator of the National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS), Zone B, Mr. Pedro Obi and the Chairman of the campus union, Mr. Amaechina Ikedi, gave the threat in a statement yesterday.

The unions accused the institutions Vice Chancellor, Prof Joseph Ahaneku, of unlawfully expelling the students’ leader.

According to the statement, the union would mobilise students against the management, if Eyisi and other victimised students were not recalled.

Obi said the union president was expelled for questioning the VC over the SUG’s dues, which was managed by his aides.

The leaders condemned the nonchalant attitude of the university towards students’ union activities that had been paralysed for more than two sessions.

He said the action was to enable the VC’s aide, who is a lecturer, to function as the SUG’s president.

The union leader also accused the institution’s management of increasing school fees by over 200 per cent, as well as collecting un-receipted bank charges and making other extortions.

The leaders urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe the accounts of the institution and the SUG.

But the VC described the allegations as dumbfounded and falsehood.

He made the clarification through the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Emmanuel Ojukwu.

According to him, members of the SUG’s parliament impeached the former president.

Ojukwu said: “After his impeachment, he went to court to challenge it but also lost.”

He described the allegation of misappropriation of SUG’s dues as infantile, adding that the VC does not manage the institutions’ funds, let alone SUG’s dues.