The call up letter is the list of
postings for the outgoing students to different states to serve their fathers’
land.
The students, who had anxiously waited
and prayed for the school to call off its strike, embarked upon over increase
in school fees, were apparently worried that they might fail to meet up with
other schools in the next batch of the NYSC programme.
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The students complained that other
higher institutions had started collecting their call up letters.
The protesters, from different faculties,
gathered at the front of the Admin block, while the Vice Chancellor was
upstairs, having meeting with students’ representative council.
NT gathered that the meeting was
about seeking solution to the present situation.
One of the students, who identified
himself as Doyin Dosunmu, said: “LASU is the only school which has not given
its outgoing students their call up letters. This is what they do to every set
that is supposed to go for NYSC. We’ll not sit back and watch them destroy our future.
The only way we can ensure they listen to us and do something about our
situation is to protest.”
Another student, who was shouting at
the top of his voice, said: “I’ve graduated since 2011, I don’t have carry-over
and yet LASU refused to give me my call up letter!” President of the Student
Union, Mr. Nurudeen Yusuf, speaking with NT on phone yesterday, said: “The
protest was carried out by students who have graduated. They’re protesting
against the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities(SSANU). Members
of SSANU in the school are on strike and they’re the people who are supposed to
give out the call up letters. SSANU said
they would not call off their strike
just because the students were protesting. But the students later wrote a
letter of apology to SSANU and today, the students have started collecting
their letters.”
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