By Raymond Ekemini
Last week, it was an eyesore seeing the SUG Executives of the University of Calabar, led by the President, Comrade Ajang Emmanuel going round various departments to disrupt classes and lectures all through the institution.
One of such incidence was at the Medical Laboratory Science department, where the final year students had gathered for their classes in preparation for their degree examinations coming up this week.
The lecturer in the class was a very senior Professor of Microbiology, Prof. Lydia Abia Bassey. On attempting to find out from the student leaders why they wanted to stop her from continuing her lecture, she was verbally assaulted by the SUG excos and shoved in a manner not befitting her status.
It took the intervention of the Dean of Students Affairs to salvage the lecturer from the hands of the angry students who swore never to allow her continue the lecture because it was students week and they are supposed to have lecture free days to mark the week.
But while speaking to CrossRiverWatch, Professor Bassey lamented the uncouth manner in which the SUG President and his group disrupted her class and assaulted her.
In her words, “I am highly disappointed in the manner those students officials paraded themselves and I must tell you, none of them is my last daughters’ age mate.”
According to her, “there was no circular to the effect that they will be student’s week and it should be a lecture free day. I have called the Dean of Students Affairs to come and see what they did to me, a Professor!” She concluded.
When the Dean of Students Affairs, Prof. Eyong Eyong arrived the scene, he apologized to Professor Bassey for all the insults and embarrassment the students may have caused her. The Dean blamed the Registrar of the University for failure to release a memo to the effect that it’s the students week and lecture free day.
Also speaking, a student in the department where the fracas took place who identified herself simply as Glory, berated the SUG President and his officials for lacking in basic manners of approach, especially how to address a Professor.
She lamented the disruption of lectures in the face of preparations by students for their examinations commencing this week.
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