support ebonyi government to compensate land owners, to vacate varsity campus – ae-funai vc appeals to fg
The Vice-Chancellor of Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi state, Prof. Sunday Elom, has appealed to the Federal Government to support Ebonyi State Government to compensate and resettle the university’s land owners to enable them vacate the campus for meaningful development.
The Vice-Chancellor made the appeal yesterday in response to the remarks of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Students’ Engagements, Hon. Comrade Asefon Sunday, during his official visit to the university as part of the Safe School Initiative campaign.

“I want to commend the President for his determination to revive the university system through the Renewed Hope Agenda. I also commend the Government for the Students’ Loan Scheme and the Safe School Initiative and Security Architecture in the country, and equally applaud the Ebonyi State Governor, Rt. Hon. Francis Nwifuru for his people-oriented policies, especially his plan to revitalize education in the State.
“As a university, we are seriously challenged because the original owners of the land where the university is situated are still living on campus because they have not been compensated and resettled by the Ebonyi State Government that donated the land to the federal government

“Because of this, we have not been able to completely fence the campus. This has been a source of worry to us. I therefore, appeal for the intervention of the federal government in the matter. I strongly appeal that the federal government support the Ebonyi state government to resettle the indigenes to enable them vacate the campus for all-round development to take place.”
Earlier in his speech, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Students’ Engagement, Hon. Comrade Asefon noted that the Tinubu’s administration is passionate about education, noting that the Students’ Loan Scheme and the Safe Schools Initiative project of the administration were intended to scale-up access to education to all Nigerians and also provide safe and conducive environment for teaching and learning in schools.

He noted that through the project, government is constructing perimeter fencing and providing CCTV cameras and solar street lights in schools to ensure the security of lives and property. He reiterated that the President is passionate and sincere about education, especially the safety of students and teachers.
He further assured that the federal government would provide some CNG buses to university campuses to ameliorate the hardship caused by high cost of transportation.

In concluding, he commended the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Elom, for the quality of academic activities in the university, adding that the institution has developed a reputation as a high-flying citadel of learning in Nigeria, and promised to assist the university in bridging some of its infrastructural challenges.