HOW STUDENTS ARE TREATED FOR EXPRESSING THEMSELVES ON A PEACEFUL PROTEST AGAINST.
In the course of managing an institution like the university of Benin a.k.a UNIBEN![2017-11-28 02.01.49.jpg](, the management decided to increase the school charges. The charges increased are as follows :
(a) The hostel charges was increased from eight thousand naira (#8,000.00) to the sum of twenty thousand naira (#20,000.00) . The situation of the hostel is that each room contains four iron bunks that allows eight(8) persons per room in which there is only two lockers procided for two (2) students and the rest are meant to keep their things on the ground. The said hostel is meant normal to contain only four persons.
(B) The inter-faculty transfer fee: The transfer fee was originally fifty thousand naira (#50,000) but has been increased to one hundred thousand naira (#100,000) . The worst of it is that after paying the said fee, you may not be transferred to your faculty /course of choice.
(C) The incoming students : These are students that are newly admitted into the system. They normally pay ninety five thousand naira (#95,000) for science students and one hundred and fifteen thousand naira(#115,000) for medical students but has now been increased to one hudred and thirty three thousand four hundred naira (#133,400) for science students and one hundred and forty nine thousand four hundred naira (#149,400) for medical students.
(D) The work-study students : These are students that work in the school and are full time students. The have not been paid for one session now and a new session has been started.
(E) The school fee: The school fees has been increased by one thousand naira (#1,000) .
These aforementioned points are the reasons why the students of university of Benin led by the SUG president Hon. Ogbidi Osamudiamen on Thursday 25th of November to express their dissatisfaction over the hike on the school charges. The students union government (SUG) has earlier before resumption , pledged with the management to reverse the effect and to no avail the management didn't give them any satisfactory answer . The students came into the campus and expressed themselves but the vice chancellor decided on the same day of the protest issued a notice to the students ordering them to evacuate the halls of residence within two hours and hence the school be shutdown indefinitely ans declaring stateod emergency by using the police force and the military against the students. The water supply ro the halls of residence was cut off and the electricity supply also was cut off leaving the students on dark. ![IMG-20171126-WA0012.jpg,() the image is showing students cooking on firewood as a result of electricity cut off to the halls of residence. The students union government ask the entire public to xome to their aid and asks for the total reversal on school charges. ![IMG-20171024-WA0011.jpg]