» OAU Students Ask Buhari To Probe VC «

Hundreds of students of Obafemi Awolowo University on
Friday asked President Muhammadu Buhari administration
to probe the activities of the Vice Chancellor of the
university, Prof. Bamitale Omole.
The students passed the message to the President through
the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, who was at the university.
They also bombarded the minister with requests that the
Federal Government should ensure decent hostels for
students on the campus.
The minister was at OAU to deliver the distinguished guest
lecture, titled ‘Nexus between corruption and
underdevelopment of Nigeria’ at the University’s Faculty of
Arts.
The students had staged series of protest against poor
condition of their hostels which led to the closure of the
school by the management late last year.
“Our halls of residence are in bad shape and my
colleagues are saying probe Omole (VC) and so on,” said
one of the students allowed to ask the minister a question.
“It is not only at the national level that the government
should concentrate its fight against corruption, it should
come to universities and we welcome President Buhari’s
war against corruption on OAU campus.”
The entire students present applauded the students, while
the minister promised to meet with the VC to discuss the
issue of students’ union leaders under suspension.
The minister urged Nigerians to support the government in
the fight, saying corruption had already started fighting
back.