In the early hours of Wednesday, 28th February, The leadership of the Angola Hall of Residence led by Akilapa Azeez Babatunde, the Angola Hall Chairman closed down one of the Butteries in the hall due to some gross misconduct.
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The closing down was done by the delegation to the Chief Security Officer of the hall, Otedola Usman, by the Hall Chairman who was not in the hall of residence during the closure. Furthermore, the buttery was opened five hours later after some resolution between the Hall Executive Council of the hall and the buttery owner.
ACJOAU gathered that the action taken by the leadership of the hall was because the Buttery attendants had been hoarding loaves of bread since last week with the hope that the NLC strike would take effect. Eventually, when the strike did not occur, they had to sell the loaves of bread for ₦350 instead of the original ₦300 leading to an additional ₦50 profit apart from the original ₦50 profit on each bread sold.
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Consequently, the Hall Executives were notified about this bad act and therefore swung into action. Not only this act but also the act of exploitation on the part of students and not following the charges list from the Welfare of the Students” Union were some of the reasons the buttery was sealed.
Solomon, a 100-level student and occupant of the hall said that he has been exploited several times by the men in the buttery either by adding a high charge rate or by making a high increase in the price of goods.
‘Imagine buying a ₦300 or ₦500 bread for ₦350 or ₦550 respectively, where is that done?’ He said. These people still collect ₦20 instead of ₦10 from students even after the declaration of the students union and this is always done using boldface because I am a fresher’. He added.
In an Interview session with Adepoju Imisioluwa also known as Legit of OAU, an occupant of Angola Hall, He said that the two men in charge of the buttery, Mr. Temitope Egbewole and Mr. Segun Egbewole lack good customer relationship. On several occasions, these men have exploited not only myself, my friends but a few other occupants of the Hall either through the high rate of charges or other means,” he said. Imisioluwa further gave kudos to the leadership of the hall for such swift action to stop the wrong acts of these men.
In an Interview session with Akinlapa Azeez Babatunde, the Hall Chairman, he said
The buttery was reopened based on some agreements, resolutions and recommendations, which are:
- They apologize and ensure that nothing such will happen again
- Another recommendation was that the buttery should have a fixed account number to affect issues or disparity in transferring to Opay or Palmpay.
- The issue of the charges was also dealt with and they affirmed that they will no longer collect ₦20 but the approved ₦10 as stated by the Office of the Welfare Director of the Students’ Union.
The Hall Chairman further re-affirm saying, ‘In Angola Hall as far as I am concerned, there will be no room for extortion regardless’. Speakng further, he said that the meeting time was used for discussing salient issues on extortion and making use of the regulated price charge. ‘We had a very good and thorough investigation to that effect’, he said