A Nigerian activist, Femi Adeyeye, has narrated how he was suspended for non-existing offences by the management of the University of Lagos in 2016, stalling his education for years. Adeyeye is the National Publicity Secretary of the African Action Congress (AAC). Adeyeye narrated his ordeal as a former student of the university in a video interview shared by The PUNCH. The activist spoke after graduating from UNILAG seven years after he was suspended for demanding better welfare for his fellow students on campus.
He continued: “Then 8th of April, that erupted into a riot because it was, in fact, the management that made it riotous because they brought in anti-riot policemen to chase out the students.
“Very funny things like there will not be light from 7am to 7pm, after that don’t expect light on campus. They asked us to sign an indemnity form to indemnify the management for any responsibility. “So on the 1st of June, I was contacted by my department that I had a letter to pick up. Immediately I heard that I had a letter to pick, I knew it because I wrote in the article that I was ready for anything that would come out of this.”Adeyeye said about 20 students were invited to face the school panel, in trials that had already been predetermined by its members.
“It was smuggled into in 2016/2017 handbook that they produced, just little copies and they called it cybercrime, cyber offences, or something like that. So you can tell that this was just a smuggled offence just to punish me.
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