Sparked Outrage as FUTO Graduates to Pay N20,000 for ‘Damaging Celebration’

The Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) has announced that all the graduating students of the 2021/2022 academic session will be required to pay a reparation fee of N20,000 for allegedly destroying the university’s property during their graduation celebration.

This decision was made at the 495th meeting of the senate held on August 31, 2023, following a report from the Committee of Deans on the incident.

According to a statement signed by the Registrar/Secretary to the Senate, Mr Chiadozie Uba, the Senate also decided to rusticate for one academic session the identified ring leaders/key players in the act of vandalism.

The statement read, “The Senate considered the submission from the Committee of Deans on the senseless celebration involving wanton destruction of University properties by graduating students and the above-reached decisions of the Senate are for necessary action, please.”

The announcement has sparked outrage among the affected students, who claimed that they did not engage in any destructive celebration and that the management was trying to extort money from them.

One of the graduates, who spoke on condition of anonymity, appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governor Hope Uzodinma to intervene on their behalf.

He said, “I am sure that none of us in this set did such. I remember that before the exams, there was a memo from the school banning the celebration of any such, and we obeyed. This memo is an indirect way of the school management trying to extort money from us.”

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