Uche Nnaike and Peace Obi
Academic activities at the Yaba College of Technology
(YabaTech) have been suspended for four weeks to
allow its management and students mourn the loss of
Miss Comfort Dazan who passed on Wednesday
morning, as well as to forestall the further damage of
property in the institution.
Following Dazan’s death, students had embarked on a
violent protest on Wednesday morning, resulting in the
destruction of property at the medical centre. They also
manhandled the Rector, Dr. Margaret Ladipo, “for
being insensitive to the plight of students”.
In a statement signed by the college’s spokesperson, Mr.
Charles Oni, the school directed students to vacate halls
of residence by noon yesterday and pledged to attend to
other issues and requests by the students in due course.
The directive further infuriated the students, who had
requested that they be allowed to mourn the deceased on
campus for two weeks, leading to another peaceful
protest yesterday which was brought kept under check
by security operatives.
The statement read in part: “The rector, the
management and the staff sympathise with the family of
the deceased student and the entire student body over
the unfortunate incident. The late Dazan, a student in
the Office Technology Management Department was a
sickle cell anaemia patient.
“She developed a crisis in the afternoon of Tuesday,
February 9, 2016 and was temporarily on admission at
the college medical centre under the close watch of the
centre’s management.
“She was however discharged when her condition
became stable, so she could prepare for her practical
examination Wednesday, February 10, 2016.
“The practical examination began round the college last
Monday as a precursor to the main general examination
earlier scheduled for Monday, February 15.”
The press release also stated that Dazan’s crisis
relapsed around midnight and her roommate rushed her
back to the medical centre where precautionary medical
attention was given to her pending referral to the
Federal Medical Centre at Ebute Metta as soon as
day broke.
“She was being conveyed to the Federal Medical
Centre early Wednesday morning when she gave up the
ghost. Students immediately cashed in on the death of
Dazan to engage in an opportunistic clamour for the
extension of the semester for two weeks.
“Unfortunately, many students do not prepare for
examinations until such examinations are a week or
three days away and customarily, they always plead for
extensions until the management put a stop to such
opportunism about two years ago.
“The hydra-headed clamour sprang up again
Wednesday because of the death of Miss. Dazan,” the
college added.
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