FCE Yola Shutdown Over Students Riot
EMERGENCY DIGEST- The management of Federal College of Education (FCE) Yola, has shut down the institution in proactive action to forestall break down of law and order in the school following violent protest by the students of the school.
According to one of the students, “we are protesting poor living conditions on campus and it got worst when the industrial borehole broke down and the management did nothing about it.”
The situation was aggregated when some of the rioting students were chased by armed military personnel and other security operatives.
Irked by the presence of security operatives, the students went wild, set fire on buildings and vandalized stores.
A student who does not want to be mentioned told our correspondent that the college had been without water for many days saying that, “We were left to sleep and study under poor environmental conditions, imagining, over 3000 students living without water supply for days now.”
“We have to source for water outside the college. We also have issues with the power supply,” he added.
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However, FCE authorities have admitted there was a breakdown in the college’s main water source, but however denied that students were left without water supply for too long.
The Registrar of the college, Ahmad Gidado said that the water scarcity was caused as a result of the breakdown of the main industrial borehole supplying the water needs of the entire school.
According to him the management swung into action on hearing about the water challenge yesterday (Monday), immediately asked the works and services department to fix the problem, but only to wake up to see students rioting this morning.
He said that, “The college has other boreholes but dealing with about five thousand students could not meet the water needs of the school that is why the water tanker was used to augment the water need caused by the breaking down of industrial borehole”.
The Registrar added that,” This morning while the water tanker is distributing water to fetching points the agitation of the students persisted, in order not to allow the incident to get out of hand an emergency meeting by the school management was convened in the interest of peace and order we decided to close down the school”.
“The management was immediately asked to vacate the school as security agencies have taken over the institution to manage the situation,” Gidado said.
