UNILAG Students Shut Campus To Protest Presence Of Bedbugs, Mosquitoes In Hostels (PHOTOS)

Students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, have again shut down their institution as they protest the continuous presence of bedbugs and mosquitoes in their hostels.

Some of the students had come out of their hostels as early as 3:00am to express their disgust over the recent development, which they believe has constituted a great deal of nuisance to their stay in the hostels.

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In a chat with Naij.com, one of the students identified as Evans King, explained that the bed they are using are those that have been put in their hostels since 2012, when Lagos state hosted the National Sports Festival, without adequate replacements.

Speaking further, the 400-level Chemical Engineering student, slammed the institution’s management for refusing to come to the aide of the crying students, as he believes that things should be done in an orderly manner and not by incessant protests over trivial issues.

Some of the students had hung their mattresses on the school’s main gate during the protest this morning. Photo Credit: Vanguard

He said: “the students had started this protest since about 3:00am this morning and it lasted for two hours before they went to bed, trying to kill the bedbugs and mosquitoes in their hostels.

“This is quite unfair to us, because some of these students pay as much as eight thousand naira for bed space, and this is what they get?

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“The last time they did fumigation was last year and the beds were not replaced with new ones since the Eko Festival in 2012. I believe the school management should come to the aide of the students, because we cannot keep protesting over very minute or trivial issues.

“How can we have bedbugs in our hostels? This is really saddening.”

Some of the aggrieved UNILAG students outside their hostels this morning. Photo credit: Vanguard

As at the time of filing this report, the students were said to have hung their beds on the school’s main gate and have grounded activities on campus, as they have called on the institution’s management to come to their aide.

Only recently, the students of the institution grounded activities on campus as they protested the death of one of their colleagues, Oluchi Anekwe, who was electrocuted by naked wires on her way to the hostel.

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