YABATECH Close down for four weeks following student protest

The management of the Yaba College of Technology has shut down the school for four weeks as students continued protesting against the death of a female final year student of the institution, Comfort Dazan, on Thursday, after falling ill in the class while setting for an exam.

The angry students went on the rampage in the college, shutting all its entrances and singing solidarity songs to protest against Dazan’s death, which they claimed was as a result of the poor state of the medical facility in the school. It was reported that Dazan, a Higher National Diploma II student of the Office of Management Technology department, passed on after she fell ill and was rushed to the college’s medical centre, which allegedly demanded N35,000 before she could be attended to.

It was gathered that apprehension made the management to suspend academic activities for four weeks. The Head, Public Relations Unit, Charles Oni, said in a statement that the suspension of academic work was to mourn Dazan. 

“The academic board of the college has suspended academic activities in the school for four weeks to allow the management, workers and students to mourn the loss of Dazan, who died on Wednesday.
“To forestall further destruction of the school property, students are to vacate halls of residence latest at 12pm on Thursday, February 11. The management has pledged to attend to other issues and requests by students in due course.”

It was learnt that the students, during the protest, vandalised the college’s medical centre’s ambulance, burnt a 5KVA generator, and damaged some vehicles belonging to the school and individuals.

Meanwhile, the authorities of the Federal Medical Centre, Oyingbo also on Thursday, admitted that Dazan died in the hospital.