Development took a dramatic turn at the University of Medical Sciences, Laje, Ondo, on Thursday as the National Association of Nigerian Students stormed the institution, forcing activities to come to a standstill.
The student body it was learnt stormed the office of the Vice Chancellor Prof. Adesegun Fatusi, who Sunrise News gathered fled for his life upon seeing the student advancing to his office.
The students stormed the institution in protest of the inordinate increment of school fees which put the cost of studying Medicine in the school at N2.245million.
The school’s management had on Wednesday, upon learning of the proposed protest earlier slated for same day by its students over the over 200 per cent increment in school fees for the 2021/22 academic session.
The school authorities had given the students 48 hours vowing to deal ruthlessly with any student found within the school and in any of its halls of residences after Thursday.
NANS had stormed the school in solidarity with the students, forcing the Vice Chancellor to run for his life.
Sunrise News gathered that some lecturers who were also in the school had to jump through the fence as the NANS chased everyone found in the school away and locked the gates of the institution.
It was further gathered that some students and lecturers who could not jump through the fence were locked up in the school by the rampaging students.
NANS threatened to ensure the school remained shut until it reverses the “mad school fees increment.”
Meanwhile some of the students were seen packing their bags out of the halls.
Many of them who are in pensive mood said the planned increment was not only expensive but insensitive.