YABATECH Shuts Down, Students Ordered To Vacate Hostel

Posted by Samuel on Fri 12th Feb, 2016 - tori.ng

The Yaba College of Technology has shut down and all students have been ordered to vacate the hostels for four whole weeks.

Yaba College of Technology

The management of Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) on Thursday announced a four-week mourning of the late Miss Comfort Dazan, a final-year HND student who died in the early hours of Wednesday.

A statement issued on Thursday by the spokesman of the College, Mr Charles Oni‎, directed all the students’ resident on campus to vacate the premises with immediate effect.

"The Academic Board of Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) has suspended academic activities in the college for four weeks to allow management, staff and students mourn the loss of Miss Comfort Dazan, who passed on yesterday morning.

"To forestall further destruction of College property, students are to vacate halls of residence latest by 12 noon, Thursday, February 11, 2016."

It was gathered that students protesting the death of Dazan had on Wednesday night destroyed some of the facilities at the school's Medical Centre.

"Management has pledged to attend to other issues and requests by students in due course," the statement said further.

Even though the students believed Dazan's death could have been avoided if officials at the Medical Centre had given her adequate care, the college management maintained that Dazan's death came as a result of a crisis she suffered as "a Sickle Cell Anaemia patient".

According to Mr Oni, "The late Dazan’s crisis relapsed around midnight and her room mates rushed her back to the medical centre where precautionary medical attention was given to her, pending referral to Federal Medical Centre at Ebute Metta as soon as day breaks.

"Students immediately cashed in on the death of the late Dazan to engage in opportunistic clamour for the extension of the semester. They demanded for the extension of the semester for two weeks.‎"