VC: UNIPORT Protest, Killing, Is Just a Plot to Sack Me

Ndowa Lale, who is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt said the protest carried out by student of his institution, that lead to the death of a student was ploy to remove him.

He made this claim on Tuesday when the Acting Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Mr. Mobolaji Odesanya, visited UNIPORT to ascertain the level of damage in the institution during Monday’s protest.
The students had demonstrated against the institution’s policy of ‘No fee, No exams,’ a development that led to the killing of one of their colleagues

The vice-chancellor explained that he was suspecting that the protest was not ordinary, adding that there was a possibility that the students’ demonstration was sponsored.

He said, “I understand that some of them (protesters) are in touch with some other people who for whatever reasons want me, the VC, out of office. Therefore, they think that if they do this protest that the vice-Chancellor would be removed from office.”

The vice-chancellor said that the management regretted the death of one of the protesting students, Mr. Peter Ofurum, but denied knowledge of the circumstances that led to the death.

Lale stated that the protest had nothing to do with hike in tuition, but bemoaned that the act was masterminded by students, who wanted to be certified without sitting for any examinations.