The Management suspended the Students’ Union Government (SUG) for their role in the attack on some of the institution’s staff at the University’s Senior Staff Club on Friday, 12 April 2024.
In the said incident, students of the University, led by the Students’ Union president, were said to have interrupted an interactive session by university staff with the Edo State governorship candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Olumide Akpata and demanded a stop to the event, claiming that they were not informed of it.
The students were said to have acted uncontrollably at the event and, in the process, rough-handled many of the staff, including Dr Presley Osemwengie, a lecturer in the Department of Economics and member of the University of Benin Branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), who later was hospitalised.
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Following the incident, the University’s management set up a panel to investigate and unravel the truth.
Consequently, in a statement signed by A.A. Bobola, the University’s registrar and made available to journalists in Benin, said that after due consideration of the Report by the Management, the Vice Chancellor approved the suspension of the University’s student union.
The statement partly reads: “The suspension which is indefinite, takes immediate effect, that is, from Monday 29h April, 2024.
“Accordingly, all Officers of the Students’ Union are to hand over all properties of the Union in their possession to the Dean, Students’ Affairs, no later than 4.00pm on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.
“In the interim, a Caretaker Committee composed of representatives of Faculties, Schools and Institutes has been approved to coordinate students’ activities during the period of suspension.
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