{"id":1982,"date":"2013-04-11T13:41:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T13:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/expulsion-student-drags-varsity-to-court\/"},"modified":"2013-04-11T13:41:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T13:41:01","slug":"expulsion-student-drags-varsity-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/expulsion-student-drags-varsity-to-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Expulsion: Student Drags Varsity To Court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Ogun State High Court sitting in Ota, southwest Nigeria, has adjourned a N10 million suit filed against Redeemers University for all Nations by a final year Political Science student of the school, John Gift Momoh, till 19 April.<\/p>\n

Joined as co-respondents in the pending suit are the Vice Chancellor of the school, the Registrar and the Dean, Students Affairs of the institution.<\/p>\n

In an affidavit in support of the human rights enforcement suit sworn to by John Gift Momoh and filed before the court by a Lagos lawyer, Barrister Adejumo Omobolaji, the applicant averred that he was summarily expelled from the Redeemers University without justification.<\/p>\n

Gift Momoh averred further that in a letter dated 29 January 2013 addressed to him, it was stated that the reason for his expulsion from the school was as a result of his addiction to morphine and cannabis.<\/p>\n

He was surprised because he has never taken any psychotropic substance in his life and as such he could not have been a drug addict.<\/p>\n

Sometime in November 2012 the school conducted a urine test on him and some other students\u00a0 but the result of the test was not shown to him. Aside this, the school’s heath centre is not an accredited forensic laboratory. The health centre is not an accredited laboratory. It is also not manned by qualified narcotics investigators, as the security men and some staff of the health centre were the personal that conducted the test.<\/p>\n

The deponent averred further that in view of the way and manner the test was conducted, the quality assurance of the process tools and techniques used in reaching the conclusion cannot be vouched for.<\/p>\n

The specimens were not properly collected, neither were they properly labeled. In addition the applicant was not allowed to confront the boys that were said to have given evidence which implicated him.<\/p>\n

The disciplinary panel that heard the case sat in secret in such a way that the membership and details of deliberations were not made known. He also wondered why the applicant was not allowed to make any representation to the disciplinary panel. Consequently, the rule of fair hearing as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution was not observed and therefore if the unjust punishment is allowed to stand, the applicant contended that it may ruin his life forever.<\/p>\n

The applicant while claiming the sum of N10 million as compensation and exemplary damages, is also urging the court to declare that the expulsion letter sent to him expelling him from the school as null and void and of no effect.<\/p>\n

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