Students of the Taraba State University, Jalingo, on Monday went on rampage to protest the boycott of the semester examinations by their lecturer commencing on Monday.
The lecturers, protesting unpaid salaries, abandoned the examinations that would have started this Monday.
The protesting students blocked all roads leading to the university, obstructing vehicles moving within the vicinity. The students burnt tyres, singing solidarity songs to express their anger against the government.
The students leader, Salisu Waziri, was said to have disclosed that they were in solidarity with the unpaid lecturers, noting that their lecturers have not been paid salaries in the past 10 months. The students demanded that the government should pay the lecturers their salaries.
The students leader was cited to have said, “We are supposed to start our first semester’s examinations today but on getting to the venue of the exams, we were told that the exams will not hold because our lecturers have been owed salaries for 10 months.
“These lecturers have children; they have families to take care of. Some of our students are almost 30 years and the more they continue to stay in school, they cannot go for NYSC which has an age limit.
“This strike is a solidarity strike with our lecturers. We call on the government and the school management to ensure our lecturers are paid their 10 months’ salaries so that we can be taught and our exams take place.”