A senior official of Atiba University, Oyo State, has described some protesting students as “intellectually bankrupt” during a demonstration over the university’s Law programme.
The official, identified as a Deputy Vice-Chancellor, was said to have made the remark while addressing the protesting students outside the university on Monday.
The students were protesting the Council of Legal Education’s decision to impose a 10-year moratorium on the university’s Law programme over deficiencies in its facilities and alleged violations of regulations governing legal education.
In footage circulating online on Tuesday, the DVC urged the students to remain calm, saying, “Let’s calm down. We’re all intellectual beings, so one day you might even find yourself in my shoes. So, don’t talk rubbish because you don’t know what your future will be.”
The students, however, urged the university official to focus on the immediate crisis affecting them.
