By Fasilat Lawal

Medical Students of the University College Hospital, UCH, Oyo State have staged a protest at the main gate of UCH over the exclusion of Alexander Brown Hall and Ayodele Falase Hall, after the restoration of power supply to the Institution.

The aggrieved students, who were cladded in black clothes, chanted solidarity songs and barricaded Queens Elizabeth Road linking Mokola and Gate.

The protest came a few days after the Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu met with the management of UCH and Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC over power disconnection in UCH for months. 

In an interview, the President, Students Union, University of Ibadan, Mr Bolaji Aweda said the protest was due to the deliberate failure to supply power to the medical student’s hall.

Mr Aweda explained that during the visit of the Minister of Power to the Hospital, he gave an assurance that power supply would be restored within 48 hours, but that the students were surprised when power was disconnected from some places including the medical students’ hostel. 

Speaking in the same vein, a female student of the institution who did not want her name mentioned, said the swift intervention of Chief Adelabu in resolving the lingering power outage at the health institution was laudable but expressed displeasure with the disconnection of power supply from their hostels, stressing that it would affect her education and personal hygiene. 

Also a post-graduate student at the College of Medicine, Mr Samuel Ojo appealed to the management of the University of Ibadan and University College Hospital to quickly resolve and restore power supply to their hostels.

The protest was however peaceful though security personnel were on ground to prevent disorder.

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