These are hard times for graduating students as management of the University of Technology Owerri, FUTO has imposed a surcharged fee of N20,000 each on the 2012 /2022 graduates over alleged destruction of the school property while celebrating their graduation from the various departments in the institution.
These are part of the decisions reached at the 495 meeting of the senate held on Thursday, August 31, 2023, which ordered that all 2021/2022 graduating students of the University be surcharged the sum of N20,000.00 only for damages to University properties.
In a statement signed by the Registrar/Secretary to the Senate, Mr Chiadozie Uba the school authority also imposed rustication for one academic session for the identified ring leaders/key players in the dastardly act.
The statement reads, "The Senate considered the submission from the Committee of Deans on the senseless celebration involving wanton destruction of University properties by graduating students and the above-reached decisions of the Senate are for necessary action, please."
IMONEWS gathered that the development has created a tense atmosphere on campus, with students feeling that the management is too quick to punish without considering the circumstances.
One of the 2012 /2022 graduates of the Citadel of Higher Learning who pleaded anonymity called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governor Hope Uzodinma to come to their rescue to avert mass dropout by some of them who could not pay the fees prescribed by the school management.
"Sir please I am sure that none of us in this set did such, I remember that before the exams there was a memo from the school banning the celebration of any such, and we obeyed, now this memo is an indirect way of the school management trying to extort money from us, having increased our school fees which was started with our set" he asserted.
He continued, We are calling upon the governor of Imo state to please intervene on our behalf, how can we spend six years in school, we were not rusticated due to any form of misconduct, now this one, Haba is bad na, if they want us to protest we will be left with no other option than to do it".
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