University of Calabar, UNICAL Vice-Chancellor vows too root out extortionists from the system.

The game is up for staff who indulge in extorting money from students and sexually harassing them in the University of Calabar.

Prof. Zana Akpagu, Vice-Chancellor of the University made the declaration today at his office when the SUG President, Comrade Daniel Eno, led a cross-section of students on a solidarity march to the the Vice-Chancellor‘s office.

The Vice-Chancellor, who expressed disappointment with the development promised students of the University that he would personally hunt down and bring to book any staff involved in extortion and sexual harassment of students.

He used the occasion to reiterate that the policy thrust of his administration is the welfare of students and announced that the University had embarked on the construction of four new Students’ hostels.

Prof. Akpagu also disclosed that plans had reached an advanced stage to convert lecture pavilions to storey buildings in order to create additional space for teaching and learning.

He thanked the students for the show of support and assured them that his doors were open to all staff and students.

In his solidarity message, the Students Union President, Comrade Daniel Eno, commended the decision of the Vice-Chancellor to make students welfare the centre-piece of his administration’s policy thrust.

He attributed this to the fact that the Vice-Chancellor is himself an alumnus of the University of Calabar.

Comrade Eno intimated the Vice-Chancellor that their mission was to pledge their total and unalloyed loyalty and support for his administration and to initiate a new phase in the relationship between students and administration.

He said, henceforth, the SUG will be a partner in progress with administration explaining that the days of students riots and demonstrations were effectively over.

The students carried placards some of which read ‘PROF.ZANA AKPAGU WE LOVE YOU, WE STAND BY YOU, YOU ARE A FATHER’, ‘UNICAL IS EXPERIENCING PEACE AND CHANGE’.