The management of the University
of Ibadan has suspended Kunle Adebajo, a 500 level student of the faculty of
law, for two semesters.
Adebajo, who was supposed to
proceed to Law School, was suspended over his 2016 article, UI: The irony of
fashionable rooftops and awful interiors, published by The Guardian.
In a statement released on
Friday, Free Campus Press Movement, a body of campus journalists from different
universities in Nigeria, urged the management to rescind on their decision.
“While we are not contesting the
powers of the university to discipline Students, we are very much concerned
that the institution management found it very convenient to suspend Kunle
Adebajo for his investigative feature titled “UI: The irony of fashionable
rooftops and awful interiors” published in Guardian Newspaper,” the statement
read.
“Not only do we find this strange
in the current dispensation of modern terms and in the post-colonial era, we
also find it strange that the university failed to observe that this
intellectual work did not in anyway abuse or defame any personality nor institution
but rather aimed to improve the standard of the University.
“We are deeply disappointed that
a university of prestige and calibre like University of Ibadan will fail to
observe that ethics of journalism requires objectivity, we feel the objectivity
of Kunle Adebajo was seen as subjectivity by the university management which is
appaling.
“We would not fold our arms, we
call on all well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the university management to
rescind the suspension of Mr Adebajo.”
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Shocking, if the university is already gagging a student at this level, thereby intimidating him into the sphere of phobias for authorities, then he would never be able to speak out against the govt by the time he graduates.
ReplyDeleteThis is completely unacceptable. I call on NUJ & NBA to rise up for this gentleman.