Benue varsity students dump colleague’s corpse at VC’s office
Medical Students of the Benue State
University, Makurdi, have deposited the coffin of their dead colleague
at the office of the Vice-Chancellor in protest.
SUNDAY PUNCH gathered that the
deceased, Idoko Nicholas Inalegwu, died in controversial circumstances
after receiving the news of his withdrawal after spending 10 years in
medical school.
Idoko was withdrawn for failing a re-sit.
A student, who spoke to one of our
correspondents on telephone on condition of anonymity, said they
believed that Idoko took his life because he could not bear the news
that his 10 years in medical was in vain.
“He
had been talking about it; that he wished he died a painless death;
that the school had finished him. There is nowhere in the world that a
medical student is withdrawn after spending 10 years,” he
said.
The student said the students had
complained about the manner in which examinations were conducted, where
re-sits were prolonged for up to one year, as against the stipulated six
weeks, with no efforts to engage the students.
The students, after an altercation at
the Benue State University Teaching Hospital mortuary, obtained the
coffin of their dead colleague and marched to the VC’s office, vowing
not to leave until their grievances were resolved.
All efforts to reach the
Vice-Chancellor, Mrs. Charity Angya, for comments proved been abortive
as she neither picked several calls made to her mobile phone nor
responded to a text message sent to her as of the time of filling this
report.
Source: The Punch
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