Nigeria: FSOT students protest death of colleagues, stop examination

Students of Federal School of Occupational Therapy, Oshodi, Lagos on Monday protested the death of their colleague, Dayo Adekeye.

It was gathered that Adekeye died last Wednesday in Lagos after falling sick at Federal Psychiatric Hospital,  Abeokuta, where he was posted for training.

The training is part of requirement for his studies.

Dayo Adekeye died on Wednesday

Our correspondent learnt that plans to organise the protest started when the school management restricted students from holding a procession in honour of the deceased.

The students accused their school management of not being considerate by posting Adekeye to a distant location despite being a sickle cell patient.

They lamented that the school management also refused to postpone the examination that was supposed to hold on Monday.

“They are expecting us to write exams of 16 different  courses within two weeks when we are not computers. They treat us as slaves and we are paying N100,000,” one of the protesters who identified himself as Ajaja said.

In a pamphlet distributed by the students during the protest on Monday, they demanded for adjustment in the school’s posting system.

The suggested that the school bus should be used to convey students to their various posting locations since the ones in Lagos have the same route.

For those going to Abeokuta,  they recommended that the bus should convey them down once with their luggage.