NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO DISSOLVE THE STUDENT UNION," PRESIDENT Says " :UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN

 NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO DISSOLVE THE STUDENT UNION," PRESIDENT Says " :UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN

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University Of Ibadan
Nobody has the right to dissolve the Student Union," President says


Reports say that the school authorities suspended the Student Union, but the Union is not having any of it.
 

» more Ojo Aderemi, the President of the now suspended Student Union of the University of Ibadan  (uitesconnect)
The President of the Student Union, Ojo Aderemi, has declared that nobody has the right to ban the union.
It's been a busy past few days for students of the University of Ibadan. From a peaceful protest asking for basic demands from the school authorities, students have been kicked out, threatened, and now it appears, their student union banned.

About that ban part, the President of the Student Union, Ojo Aderemi, is having none of this.



» more Ojo Aderemi, the President of the now suspended Student Union of the University of Ibadan  (uitesconnect)
Ojo believes there are no real grounds to postpone school activities or even ban the Union. His colleagues, according to him, have no history of vandalism.

In his own words:

"University of Ibadan students are not known for hooliganism. We're not known for vandalism. Check out history. We've always been peaceful students. We don't vandalise property. We're intellectuals."

And to the legal part. He believes the University has no constitutional right to ban them from having a student union.

And while he was at it, he didn't forget to throw in some shade:

"According to the sacrosanct constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, we have the right to associate, assemble. And no individual, nobody, has the right to dissolve the Union, because it is not a cube of sugar."

But why is all of this even happening in the first place?
Speaking with the press, and surrounded by students, he said they simply chose Democracy Day to come out and state their grievances. He said:

"We had a general meeting of the Student Union, and it was resolved that students should embark on a peaceful demonstration on Democracy Day."

"The reason being that for three semesters on the campus, students have paid for their ID cards, but they haven't received them. Apart from that, according to our student information handbook, we have the right to use hot plates in our kitchennettes. There's high level of victimisation, stifling freedom of information and expression."

Meanwhile the school authority has postponed exams till the 17th of July, and there's still a strict ban on protests by the Oyo State Commissioner of Police.