UNILAG Disowns The 13 Students Sent To Prison For Protesting

The management of the University of Lagos, in a statement released on Tuesday, has disowned the 13 students who are currently in prison custody over an alleged “riotous invasion” of the university campus and a television station, TVC.

Toyin Adebule, Deputy Registrar, Information Unit of the university said the detained people comprised of students rusticated by the institution and others from a school in Ogun State..

The statement read;

“The University of Lagos hereby states that the 13 students remanded by the court as reported by different newspaper tabloids and electronic publications are not students of the institution. 

“Let us emphasise here that the rusticated students are requested to apply for re-admission after serving their punishment. Until re-absorption, they are not considered bona fide students of the university.”