The Senate of the Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, Katsina state has directed that the institution should be shut down after an emergency meeting by its members.
This followed the sudden appearance of the Institution’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Haruna Abdu Kaita, who was on suspension, on the campus on Friday with a high court ruling quashing the suspension.
His appearance reportedly led to a mild protest by some groups of allegedly Christian students.
The development took another dimension when the Vice-chancellor went to perform the Muslems Friday Jum’at prayers after which some Muslim students and workers of the institution urged him on to go and resume in his office.
Sensing breakdown of law and order, the institution’s Senate hurriedly held the emergency meeting where the decision to close down the institution was taken.
A circular signed by Bichi, who is also the institution’s acting Vice Chancellor, however, attributed the closure to security reasons.
The circular read: “the Senate of Federal University of Dutsin-Ma at its 10th emergency meeting held on Friday 2nd June 2017 reviewed the security situation in the university and decided to close down the school indefinitely.”
The circular also directed that students of the institution vacate the school immediately.
The situation was tensed on the campus as at Saturday with many workers seen around anticipating another round of crisis on Monday when the Vice-chancellor allegedly vowed to resume fully. [myad]
