COVID-19: Akwa Ibom student drowns, as parents fume over university ‘refusal’ to shutdown

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The victim was a final year student of Marine Biology at the university.

Parents of students at Akwa Ibom State University, Ikot Akpaden, Mkpat Enin, have accused the authorities of the school of negligence and refusal to close down the school as ordered by the federal government over the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.

Nsikak Akai, a lawyer in Uyo, on March 24, did a petition to the National Universities Commission , Abuja, accusing the authorities of Akwa Ibom State University of disobeying the NUC’s directive that universities in the country should be shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic.He cited an internal memo of the university dated March 20 in which the university community was informed about the postponement of the first semester examinations because of the coronavirus.

Akaninyene Ibanga, the spokesperson of the university, however, told PREMIUM TIMES that the university is not in session as alleged, even though non-teaching staff have been reporting to work. A student of the university told PREMIUM TIMES, Thursday afternoon, that she was yet to leave the university town, Ikot Akpaden, because her lecturer was still “looking at” her final year project topic, therefore confirming that some academic work could be going on, unofficially, in the school.

 

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