UNIPORT Assures Of Safety On Campus

The Management of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPRT) Choba, says that the university was still monitoring the situation and would meet at the right time to decide on resumption date.

The Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Joseph Ajienka, stated this while briefing newsmen at the Senate Chambers, Choba, last week.

Prof. Ajienka noted that the university would be re-opended as soon as the environment is safe for students to resume academic activities, adding that the staff and students of UNIPORT who live off-camps in Aluu, no longer feel safe in the nighbourhood.

According to the Vice Chancellor, many of our staff and students no longer feel safe in the Aluu neighbourhood. “I have a responsibility to all of them”.

He debunked allegations that Dr. Andrew Efemini was removed from office as the Acting Head of Department of Philosopy because of his involvement in the National Association of Nigeria Students’ (NANS) protest last Tuesday, in Choba.

The Vice Chanellor said: “The Head of Department is a statutory member of the University administration who is responsible to the Vice Chancellor, through the Dean of Faculty in the discharge of his or her duties”.

He, however, explained that the removal of Dr. Andrew Efemini, as the Acting Head of Department of Philosophy, for participating in last Tuesday’s students’ protest was being looked into by a committee.

It would be recalled that the management of UNIPORT had hurriedly shut down the school and ordered all students to go home because of protests over the gruesome murder of four students of the University, in Umuokiri, Aluu.