- By Halimah Olamide
If she had been victimized by a lecturer, she should have approached the school management for complains
Authorities of the Ebonyi State University have released the academic records of late Miss Favour Ugwuka, a final year student of the Department of English and Literary Study of the institution who committed suicide last week
At a press conference addressed by the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof Chigozie Ogbu, he said if late Ugwuka had felt victimised, she should have use the institution’s channels for reporting such instead of taking her own life. “The university has a system where if after exams, a student feels that he or she is marked down or that the lecturer is victimizing him or her, the student knows what to do.
“When a student is confident that a lecturer has deliberately marked him or her down, and that she is sure that she passed the exam, what the student does is to complain to the HOD or Dean and deserve to request for re-mark.
“If she had been vitimised by a lecturer, she should have approached the school management for complains.
“We have our Senior Staff Disciplinary Committee and if any lecturer found vitimising a student, such lecturer will definitly be sanctioned and called to order.
“The School Management in collaboration with the security agencies are still investigating the incident,” Ogbu added. After the vice chancellor’s speech, the Dean, Faculty of Social Social Science and Humanity Prof Ngozi Emeka-Nwobia said the late female student’s academic records showed she was not performing well from the time she gained admission into the university. Emeka-Nwobia told journalists, “I have the certified true copy of the results of Ugwuka with the registration number; EBSU/2018/89726 for the department, who registered in the year 2018/2019 and that is her 1st year.
“In the first Semester, she offered nine courses out of which she failed three courses and had a CGP of 1.78. In her second semester first year, she took eight courses. Out of the eight courses, she failed two and had a CGP of 1.75 thereby having a sessional CGP of 1.76.
In the year 2021/2022, she took a total of 11 courses and failed two courses making a GP of 1.83. In second semester, she failed four courses making a GP of 1.18. Total CGP for the session -1.52.
“In her extra year, 2022/2023, she registered a total of six courses in first semester and she passed all. In second semester, she registered a total of six courses and failed one giving her a CGP of 2.84
“After the extra year, she had outstanding courses; ENG 224, ENG 416,;ENG 422. The bone of contention is ENG 416. In 2021, she scored 40 which is fail. She took it the second time in 2022/2023 and had 21 which is also fail,” she explained.