The YABATECH deputy registrar noted that the management’s main task was to ensure the safety of staff and students on campus adding, “the college management will not relent on this.”
By Jeffrey Agbo
The ongoing students’ week at the Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Lagos has been suspended following a shooting incident which occurred on Wednesday in the college.
YABATECH Deputy Registrar, Joe Ejiofor, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday that the step became necessary to restore sanity as the event attracted an influx of miscreants and non-students in the school.
Ejiofor, who is also the head of public relations unit of the college, expressed discontentment over the incident.
He said the person who was shot was not a student of YABATECH and that the shooter had been apprehended.
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“Truly there was a problem that resulted in a shooting incident which took place on Wednesday during the ongoing students’ week but the people involved are not our students.
“There was an influx of people on the campus due to the activities and unfortunately some miscreants in the environment took undue advantage of the event to attack their opponents.
“The college management, therefore, suspended the event with immediate effect because of the sad development that involved shooting but the good news is that the perpetrator has been arrested and at present at the Sabo Police Station, Yaba,“ Ejiofor said.
The YABATECH deputy registrar noted that as a responsible and responsive management, its main task was to ensure the safety of staff and students on campus adding, “the college management will not relent on this.”
