THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY COMMISSION SAYS STUDENTS WILL PAY FOR ALL THE PROPERTIES DAMAGED.

THE National Universities Commission (NUC) has said that students of the University of Calabar would be made to pay for the property they destroyed during their two weeks violent protest.

Executive Secretary of the Commission, Professor Julius Okojie, said at the weekend that it was unacceptable for students to destroy property put in place to guide their academic exercises and welfare.

Represented by the Director, Physical Planning of the commission, Bola Balogun, who led a team to the university to ascertain the extent of damage, Okojie said although NUC would not pre-empt the findings and recommendations of the committee investigating the remote and immediate causes of the protest, it was only logical that the students should pay for what they destroyed.

‘The only logical thing to do is to make the students, not only bring their parents to sign undertaking for good behaviour, but should pay for what they spoiled’, Balogun said.

In his remarks, the Vice- Chancellor of the university, Professor James Epoke, said that contrary to media reports, only one student lost his life and 137 vehicles destroyed during the rampage.

Epoke, who led the visiting NUC team round the campus, showed the ambulances, school buses, staff vehicles, Medical Centre, Microfinance building, administrative building, School of Post-graduate, NUC database, among other places, as property destroyed by the rampaging students.