About 200 students may have been expelled by the authorities of
Covenant University, Cannanland, Ota, Ogun State, recently for what was
described as “disregard of paramount core values.”
Frustrated and angered by the development, some of the affected
students who gave account of what happened battled emotions while
narrating their situations to reporters recently. They however
pleaded with the school authorities to tamper justice with mercy in
order to save their future.
Reporters investigation revealed that out of the figure,
about 126 were expelled for not attending the ‘departure service’, meant
to sign off from the school after the end of the Semester and
Matriculation of students on November 30. Five other students were
thrown out for smoking while unconfirmed source said additional 60 got
the same fate for violating other rules bordering on the University’s
core values. A few others were given four weeks suspension for failure
to sign the head count that was conducted a couple of weeks earlier.
A letter of expulsion signed by the Registrar, Ntia Ubong, a copy
which was made available to Saturday Vanguard stated that the affected
students contravened Chapter 1, section 30, page 40 of the 2010-2014
Student Handbook.
We gathered that the massive expulsion was predicated on the anger of
the Chancellor, Bishop David Oyedepo who was said to have been
infuriated after seeing students loitering around when they were
supposed to be at the Chapel for the Departure Service.
He was said to have personally chased students to the Chapel and
ordered for a search into all the halls and colleges to fish out those
who did not attend the service.
Several attempts to get the school authorities comment on the issue
proved abortive. The Instituion’s Corporate Affairs Head, Mr Igban
Emmaunel also refused to comment as calls pulled through to him were
unanswered and text messages not replied.
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