Students of the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus (UNEC) yesterday protested against acute water scarcity and over three months of power failure around the campus.
The protesting students said the situation had become so unbearable that they needed to voice out their plight to the world, accusing the university management of insensitivity.
Brandishing their placards which read, “We are tired of blackout,” “We need Light”, “No Light, No Lecture,” “We want Water,” “Light is our right,” the students insisted that they would never enter the classrooms until electricity was restored.
The angry students said they had planned to march to media houses in Enugu to register their complaints, but the school security locked the two gates against them, preventing them from going outside. In turn, the students occupied the gates, making sure that nobody, not even the VC, would go in or out of the campus.
The students said over the years the school had been depending on the school generating sets which, they said, literally packed up over three months ago, adding that they did not have anything to do with public electricity.
Policemen were sent to the school to prevent a breakdown of law and order.
The Public Relations Officer of the university at the Enugu campus, Mr. Godwin Onah, emphasised that both the students and the management were holding meeting to resolve the matter.
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