By Wole Balogun
Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has refuted allegations that it asked students to pay obnoxious fees such as Final Year Brothers (FYB) and Staff Fees, saying such could only either exist in the imagination of the students making such allegations or he or she is using the falsehood to dupe his or her parents.
The management also clarified on the instruction that final year students should bind hard copies of their projects at the University printing press, explaining that this was done in good faith so as to ensure that the projects of these graduating students have quality that will ensure the test of time and meet up with the uniformity in colours which vary from faculty to faculty.
Speaking on behalf of the management, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Administration, Prof. Tajudeen Bolanle Opoola, said: “ First of all, our great University places high premium on quality and standard. This is why we offer the best for our students in terms of infrastructure, lectures and community services. FUOYE has noticed over the time that the binding of the projects of most of our graduating students done outside are of very poor quality and do not match the official faculty colours. Their poor quality cannot make these works last long on the shelves. This is why the Management thought it wise and much better for these students to bind at our University press and this explains why we instructed them to bring the projects for binding at the University press where quality works will be done for them. Students’ final year projects are research goldmines which should be well kept and made durable and this is highly beneficial to the students, the University and more importantly, the society at large,”he clarified.
Dismissing the allegations that students were asked to pay such obnoxious fees as Final Year Brothers (FYB) fee and staff fee, the DVC, Administration said: “FUOYE Management never asked students to pay for FYB. We should also note that students’ departmental associations are in all Universities and whatever they mutually agreed to do for themselves as part of their social life on campus is first of all their own decisions not management’s.
“On Project issue, only binding of students’ Projects are to be done with University Press to allow for standard and uniformity in the Faculties’ Colours which vary from faculty to faculty.
“Thirdly, we challenge any member of the public to provide proofs on payment of staff fees as there is nothing of such here in FUOYE because the management never asked for such.
However, it is possible that any student may want to use the University’s name to dupe his or her parents. We therefore warn any writer from any news platform to get prepared for possible litigation for not balancing his findings before dragging the University’s name in the mud on the social Media, thank you, “he said.