Students of The University Of Ibadan Protest Boko Haram Threats.

There was confusion at the University of Ibadan on Wednesday as the Students Union Government of the institution besieged examination halls and disrupted the ongoing second semester examinations.

The protest, it was learnt, led to the temporary suspension of the examination.

According to the SUG, the action was in response to the growing anxiety over alleged plan by the dreaded Boko Haram sect to attack the institution and other universities in the country.

Because of the Boko Haram scare, the institution had since Monday tightened security within the campus.

The protest, carried out in a commando-like manner, reportedly started around 8.30am. The angry students who were said to have been led by the SUG President, Tokunbo Salako, reportedly demanded that examination should be stopped until the safety of lives of the students and staff of the institution was guaranteed.

It was learnt that the students union had on Tuesday night gone round the halls of residence to solicit students’ support for the protest.

The SUG demanded that the school authorities should explain what they had done so far to guarantee safety of lives of the students in view of the alleged threat.

The students also expressed apprehension following power outage and epileptic water supply experienced in the institution in the last few days.

The protesting students stormed all the faculties to stop the conduct of the examination.

The students, who met stiff resistance at the Faculty of Arts, tore some examination papers and scripts and forced the management and the students out of the halls.

A student who spoke on the condition of anonymity queried, “How on earth are we expected to perform well when there is no light and water to read for the exam? In fact, the school authorities have kept us in the dark about this story of Boko-Haram targeting the school.

“We only got to know about it in the newspapers and the school has not deemed it fit to inform us either through memo or by inviting the student leaders. That is too bad. We all know that terrorist attacks happen where there is a large crowd. This is more likely during examination periods.”

Students, who had reported for their examination, expressed shock over the protest. They expressed fears that the ASUU warning strike billed to start from September 26 could catch up with them if the examination did not hold on time.

Reports had it that the authorities of the university were meeting to take a position on the protest.