By joshua 
By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City.
The Management of the Ambrose Alli University,of Ekpoma, has described the protest by NANS as Ill-motivated, considering the fact that Management has made it clear over and over again that the decision to make adjustments to tuition fees in AAU, though painful, is inevitable in the light of the present realities, adding that tuition fees adjustments are not perculiar to AAU, Ekpoma.
“Everyone knows that it is no longer realistic to train a lawyer or a doctor in Nigeria with N185,000 and N216,000, respectively, in a year”.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Acting VC, Prof. Asomwan Sonnie of the institution which was made available to the Nigerian Post in Benin City, in reaction to the students protest on Friday.
Nigerian Post recalls that students’ national body, NANS last Friday protested the increase in School fees In AAU, demanded the reversal of the over three hundred percent School Fees increment, the sack of the Special Intervention Team(SIT), which tenure is said to expire on the 24th of June, 2023.
They also demanded the sack of the Acting Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof Sonnie Adagbonyin
Management noted that the adjustments in tuition fees are only for in-coming students of the University.
The Management further stated that with the arrangement in place, old students will continue to pay the old fees they have been paying since their admission into the University until they graduate from the University, adding that these tuition fees adjustments do not affect those who are already “students of Ambrose Alli University.”
“To cushion the payment of these fees, Management has always approved installments payment of fees by students of the University. In other words, students have two semesters to pay their fees. The set of in-coming students are not exempted”.
They said the war cry being raised by members of NANS sound like the familiar cries of the many politicians and meddlesome interlopers masquerading as “stakeholders” who have, for some time now, been threatening the peace of the University and appear to be cashing in on this opportunity to relaunch their war against the University and its Management.
The Management advised NANS, its officials and its backers not to threaten the peace of the University and start a battle they do not know when it will end.
The Management pledges to remain unprovoked and focused on its mandate with the support of the Special Intervention Team and the Edo State Government.
“We encouraged parents of prospective students not to be dissuaded from sending their wards to Ambrose Alli University, as the University means well. We also urged all students of AAU to remain peaceful and not to take the laws into their hands as the 2022/2023session begins in earnest on Saturday, July 1st, 2023.. Management assures all of adequate security as they go about their lawful duties in the University”.