Professor Lilian Salami, the outgoing Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, has recounted how students of the institution, during a protest, pelted her with sachet water and ordered her to read a script after them.
DAILY POST reports that Prof. Salami disclosed this in her new book titled “So Much To Say: A Memoir,” written as a chronicle of her five-year tenure as the 10th Vice Chancellor of the university.
Salami also explained that she was abducted by the students who forced her to trek to the main gate of the institution to address them over the increase of the penalty of N10,000 to N20,000 for the late payment of school charges after two weeks of resumption during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.
She alleged that the protest as well as other protests that happened during her five years as the head of the university were masterminded and sponsored by cabals.
She averred that the decision to increase the penalty was taken by the university council, which frowned at the level of students’ school charges indebtedness needed to drive the session
