SOS! UNILAG Students Protest Bedbug Attacks In Hostels [Photos]

The students of the University of Lagos yesterday staged a protest over the invasion of bedbugs in their halls of residence.

The protest, which started in the early hours of Monday, saw the placard-carrying students displaying their tattered and dirty mattresses at the main gate and on the billboards located in the institution.

The angry students blamed the university management for not fumigating the hostels and replacing the old mattresses with new ones despite ordering the students not to bring their own beds when admitted.

One of the students, who said the had started from Mariere hall, explained that a student woke in the middle of the night screaming due to the presence of over 100 bedbugs on his body.

This agitated the students, who had been dealing quietly with the presence of the blood sucking animals in their hostels, and they resorted to protest.

However, the UNILAG Deputy Registrar (Information), Mr. Olagoke Oke, who spoke with reporters said that efforts are underway to change the mattresses before the students’ outrage.

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