It was gathered by Daily Independent that the inferno which razed the Microbiology Department of the institution on Thursday, started on Wednesday night. Vital documents and academic records of students were said to have been destroyed in the inferno.
The incident
reportedly sparked reactions from students of the institution which has
several history of fire incident. It was gathered that four different
departments of the institution have for the past four years been gutted
by fire.
Some of the students, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the
management of the institution should be held responsible for the
perennial fire incidents. Some of them alleged that the consistent fire
incidents could be attributed to the practice of management, especially
the lecturers to deliberately withhold results of students.Some of the students further alleged the fire outbreak was deliberately done by the lecturers to compel students to part with money as well as pay school fees in the case of spill.
They alleged that this was the reason why fire incidents always occur immediately after sectional examinations, especially when results of students were been computed.
One of the students who give his name as Friday said: “management
should be asked why cases of missing results have now become a common
axiom in AAU. When a student is already thinking ahead of university,
they will come up with this idea of missing result, making such student
to pay another school fees or bribe lecturer with money to go. I cannot
lie to you that students are not responsible for these fire incidents,
but management should also carry out self-cleansing if these incidents
are to be a thing of the past. Or how do you explain why these incidents
always happen at the end of session and when results are been
compiled.”
Meanwhile, newsmen who went to cover the Thursday fire were chased out of the campus by security personnel on the order of the school management.
source: naijnews