Ojukwu Varsity students cry out over excessive lack of power, urge Soludo to intervene

By Cyprian Ebele, Onitsha

The students of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Uli, Anambra State, have cried out over excessive lack of power supply to the institution for years.

The students, however, urged the governor, Chukwuma Soludo to fulfill his promise of restoring power supply to the institution, which he made at his visit to the varsity months ago.

They lamented serious attacks on them by unknown gunmen, and blamed it on the lack of power supply to the University. 

speaking to newsmen at the area, one of the students who simply identified himself as Joseph, stated that, “Whenever there is nightfall our happiness turns to sadness because there is no electricity supply to the University. Fear  of unknown normally grips us.

“Governor Chukwuma Soludo visited us about a month ago and pledged to give us light but since then till now nothing has happened. I believe if he wants to give us light  it is just a little amount for the state  to be spent and it won’t take up to a month to fix the project.

“This is a state University that ought to have been well equipped more than Federal University because the money is there. Two major things we suffer in the school are attack by unknown gunmen and lack of power supply.

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Also, a female student who pleaded anonymity told newsmen that she has her lantern but that the cost of procuring the kerosene is what consumes her money.

“Only God knows what we go through in the night, sometimes unknown gunmen will take over a particular place because there is no light. If it is possible let the governor supply solar energy because from the look of things our institution is not in his agenda,” she posited.

Reacting, an activist who is the National chairman of Human Dignity Restoration  Association, HDRA, Jude Achebe, expressed dismay that a state University has no power supply at this jet age, lamenting that those who apply electricity in their course of study will be useless after their educational career in the University..

“How will a student cope up after graduation when he is a computer science student. He will wait until the state government supplies power to the University and then the student will commence applying power to what he was taught without power.

“When there is darkness all manners of illegalities thrive but when there is light it over shadows darkness, so let there be light for these children who come from families that make use of light.

“Governor Soludo should fulfill his pledge to these students by providing power to assist the students because some of them have not experienced darkness prior to coming to the institution,” he explained.