SIR: We are compelled to invite the special attention of the public to the exploitation of postgraduate students of Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin. It would be recalled that the University of Ilorin recently released the list of its admitted students for postgraduate programmes for the 2015/2016 session. Going by the school instruction, successful candidates are expected to perform their registration online, including payment of school fees and other sundry payments through the university website. It has become the university policy that all money due to the school are to be paid through banks or online transaction.

Curiously, on December 30, 2015 postgraduate students of Faculty of Law received email and text messages from the coordinators of faculty of law postgraduate programmes to the effect that all postgraduate students of law should come to the faculty the following day for manual registration of courses. Unknown to the students, the coordinators have laid down a well-coordinated plan to extort them of N5000 each under the cover of a dubious "clearance fee". All the students who registered that day were made to cough out N5000 as a condition for manual registration of courses. What is even shocking is that the coordinators collected these money by hand without issuance of receipt against the university policy prohibiting staff from receiving money manually from students. It was obvious from their conduct that this was an attempt to corruptly enrich themselves.

We the concerned students call on the Vice Chancellor and the Dean of Postgraduate Studies to use their good offices and call these coordinators, who are bent on milking us dry, to order and sanction them appropriately. Our demand is that the money so far illegally collected be returned to the affected students.

Sanni Onyekachi Adaba,

University of Ilorin.