Parents and other stakeholders have joined students of the University of Ibadan to protest the compulsory fee increment by the management of the institution.
They argued that the university should rescind its decision due to the current economic situation which is making the existing fees unaffordable for some parents and indigent students.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor Idowu Olayinka, in a meeting with the students on Tuesday, spoke on the need for the increment, he told the gathering that it was necessary.
But the parents as well as students who were present in the hall and outside the hall vehemently rejected the proposed increment as they called for the reversal with immediate effect.
Earlier students of the institution had embarked on a protest against the accommodation fees which was increased from N14,000 to N30,000. Medical students are expected to pay N40, 000.
One of the parents said many of them are either government workers or retirees and find it difficult to pay the existing fees to talk less of the proposed one.
The parents said some of them could not afford to send their children to private universities because they could not afford to pay the fees, DailyPost reports.
The parents said if there has to be an increment it should be a gradual process because the minimum change has not changed.
Meanwhile, protesting students said that some of them could barely afford to pay the existing fees.
However, some of the placard-carrying students said they would not resume until the fees are reversed.
Some of the placards read “SAY NO TO FEES INCREMENT”, “NO REVERSAL, NO RESUMPTION “, PARENTS, STUDENTS AND WORKERS MUST BE INVOLVED IN DECISION MAKING OF THE UNIVERSITY, WHERE IS ASUU/FG N3 BILLION SPECIAL INTERVENTION FUNDS.”
