Students of Yaba College of Technology,
Lagos State, on Wednesday grounded activities at the institution in
protest of the death of a final year colleague, Ms. Comfort Dazan.
The protesting students blamed Dazan’s
death on the poor state of the college’s medical centre and the refusal
of officials at the centre to attend to her.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the
diseased, a Higher National Diploma II student in the Department of
Technology Management, had been rushed to the college’s medical centre
after fallen seriously ill days ago.
However, the centre demanded N35,000 for her treatment and left her unattended when she couldn’t raise money.
She was eventually rushed to a hospital on Wednesday as her condition worsened but did not make it.
Angered by the development, students
took to the roads, blocking the Jibowu end of the Herbert Macaulay Road,
Yaba, singing solidarity songs and carrying placards with inscriptions
such as “This nonsense must stop.”
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