Crisis is brewing at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, over a compulsory N75,000 levy slammed on students by the university’s administration.
Students, who spoke on the matter yesterday, urged the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, to intervene on the matter, describing the N75,000 compulsory laptop levy as “corruption of the highest order”.
It was gathered that the university’s administration had recently introduced a mandatory policy, wherein all students were forced to own a laptop.
One of the new students described the policy as inhuman, noting that “it is so sad that they are making education so difficult for the poor.
“With this policy, we would now be paying close to N200,000 in a federal university per session. This is wickedness.
“As I speak to you, I’m helpless because my parents don’t have that kind of money. It is wrong for anyone to make computer ownership compulsory. It should be a matter of choice. The management should not use us to make money.”
Also speaking, another student called on the education minister to call the vice chancellor to order.
“We are begging the minister to urgently intervene because they are turning this university into a marketplace.
“If the vice chancellor is interested in doing laptop business, he should find a market for it without placing such a burden on poor students.
“Some of our parents are leaving on N18,000 minimum wage; now they want them to pay N200,000 as school fees for one session. This is wickedness of the highest order. Computer ownership should be by choice,” he stated.
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