Kwara State University, Malete, (KWASU) has been closed down over protests by students who wanted to write their examination even without completing payment of fees.
national accord gathered that the aggrieved students wanted the VC to allow them to participate in the forthcoming examination despite the fact they have not completed the payment of their school fees.
The Students who had went to dialogue with Vice-Chancellor on many occasions without any concrete result resorted into protest and public disturbances.
But the School management in a statement signed by the Registrar, Mrs. Modupe O. Akinrinmade stated that the management ordered students to vacate the campus but remained silence on when to resume.
The Vice-Chancellor in an interview with Journalists explained that "we have to do that unfortunately because we want to make sure that there is peace in the campus. There are some students who did not register for this academic year. As you know in any university, when you come in, the first two weeks or so are for registration."
"We started in January 9, by March after we reopened registration many times, we had to end it. Unfortunately those of them who had not registered, now that the examination, they now want the university to allow them to write examinations which is not done anywhere in the world. I guess they want to force their ways.
"Initially, the demonstrated was peacefully which was excellent because we feel students must be active. We should know what they think. But this morning, some of them burnt bonfire at the nearby bypass and later they entered campus and went into the hostel to try to force students to join them. So we realized that the best thing to do is to let them go home so that there will be peace.
According to him, "we always been in dialogue. It is not the entire students. It is just people who had not registered and all they wanted was for us to reopen portal. We are university that is bringing new sets of Nigerians that understand laws and regulations and want the country to grow."