Mgt closes down FCE Yola as Students protest over water scarcity

The Management of Federal College of Education (FCE) Yola has closed down school over students unrest in the early hours of Tuesday.

The students protested over water scarcity the school management was unable to tackle.

This development the Registrar of the college, Mallam Ahmad Gidado while briefing Journalists in his office said the water scarcity was caused as a result of the breakdown of the main industrial borehole supplying the water needs of the entire school.

According to him the management swung into action on hearing about the water challenge yesterday (Monday) immediately asked the works and services department to fix the problem, but only to wake up to see students rioting this morning.

Ahmad revealed that the Provost to augment the water scarcity has directed a water tanker to supply the water occasioned by the breakdown of the industrial borehole but yet the students were adamant.

Gidado told journalists that the school was closed down till further notice to curtail further breakdown of law and order by the students.

“The college has other boreholes but dealing with about five thousand students could not meet the water needs of the school that is why the water tanker was used to augment the water need caused by the breaking down of industrial borehole.

” This morning while the water tanker is distributing water to fetching points the agitation of the students persisted, in order not to allow the incident to get out of hand an emergency meeting by the school management was convened in the interest of peace and order we decided to close down the school.

“The management was immediately asked to vacate the school as security agencies have taken over the institution to manage the situation,” Gidado said