Students of Osun State University under the aegis of Student Joint Campus Committee (SJCC) have threatened to shut down all the campuses of the university should the management of the institution refuse to waive the late registration fees.
The Chairman of SJCC, Ohamara Victor Chinedu and General Secretary, Yusuf Muis Oluwakayode told Daily Trust that the students would stage peaceful protest across all the campuses of UNIOSUN on Thursday to demonstrate the seriousness of their demand.
The students also wrote separate letters to the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Najeem Salam and the varsity VC Professor Lobode Popoola.
In the letters, they demanded waiver of the late registration fees. They also asked the Speaker to intercede for them and prevent the school from imposing the charges.
Ohamara and Oluwakayode noted that the payment of N10,000 charge for late registration would be difficult for the students given the current economic hardship in the country and urged the vice chancellor of the university to jettison the idea.
The students lamented that the school management closed the school portal and reopened it after much pleading but the management added a sum of N10,000 as penalty for late registration.
SJCC said “The economy of this nation is biting harder on our parents. The school management should consider us. Almost everybody is yet to complete their course registrations before the sudden closure of the portal in December, 2016”.
“There are fresh students who had barely settled down before the portal was closed in the same month, leaving them unaware of the school system. The entire students found it difficult to believe that the management would take such decision as it was alien to us. We thereby seek the cooperation of the VC to spare N10,000 late registration penalty”.
Meanwhile, the VC had expressed worry that the students were in the habit of not paying school fees at the appropriate time and that some of them were indebted to the university to the tune of N2billion
In a press briefing earlier, the VC said the situation of the unpaid school fees has become unbearable and that the system might collapse if drastic measures were not put in place to deter the defaulters.
He however said the institution would no longer tolerate such habit for any of its students.
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