SUG Is not a Cube of Sugar- UI SUG PRESIDENT lashes out on School Authorities

The Student Union was banned as a result of a peaceful protest by the students asking for basic demands from the school authorities

Ojo believes there are no real grounds to postpone school activities or even ban the Union. His colleagues, according to him, have no history of vandalism.

In his own words:

“University of Ibadan students are not known for hooliganism. We’re not known for vandalism. Check out history. We’ve always been peaceful students. We don’t vandalise property. We’re intellectuals. 

 And to the legal part. He believes the University has no constitutional right to ban them from having a student union.

And while he was at it, he didn’t forget to throw in some shade:

“According to the sacrosanct constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, we have the right to associate, assemble. And no individual, nobody, has the right to dissolve the Union, because it is not a cube of sugar.”

Speaking with the press, and surrounded by students, he said they simply chose Democracy Day to come out and state their grievances. He said:

“We had a general meeting of the Student Union, and it was resolved that students should embark on a peaceful demonstration on Democracy Day.”

“The reason being that for three semesters on the campus, students have paid for their ID cards, but they haven’t received them. Apart from that, according to our student information handbook, we have the right to use hot plates in our kitchennettes. There’s high level of victimisation, stifling freedom of information and expression.”

Meanwhile the school authority has postponed exams till the 17th of July, and there’s still a strict ban on protests by the Oyo State Commissioner of Police.