LAUTECH expells 4 students, suspends 8 over protests | EduCeleb
EduCeleb
25th July 2018
The Senate of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso, has approved the expulsion of four students and the suspension of eight others over their involvement in a protest on the institution’s campus in the June.
The Registrar of the institution, J. A. Agboola made this known in a press release sent to  on Wednesday in Ogbomoso.
He said that this was following the deliberation at an emergency meeting held on Tuesday, July 24, 2018.
In his words, the Senate “considered at length the report and recommendations of the panel set up to investigate the student crisis that erupted after the Student Union election held on Wednesday, June 13, 2018.”
The Senate eventually approved that the selected students should either be expelled or suspended from the University. See the list below.
The leadership of the LAUTECH Students’ Union decline comment on this development for the fear of victimisation but some students within the university believe that the action of the management was meant to silence dissenting voices.
EduCeleb.com recalls that during the said protests that led to the suspension and expulsion of the aforementioned students, the students demanded the cancellation of the Union elections over what they termed imposition.
Five among them were arrested during the protests. These persons are among those eventually suspended and expelled.