The fire incident took place on December 23 when a two-storey female hostel went up in flame due to a power surge. No fewer than 32 rooms were razed and prosperity worth millions of naira destroyed.
Victims of the fire which gutted Okeke Hall of Residence at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) have now been reolocated to new hostels, TheNation reports.
The
fire incident took place on December 23 when a two-storey female hostel
went up in flame due to a power surge. No fewer than 32 rooms were
razed and prosperity worth millions of naira destroyed.
Last week, the school management allocated alternative accommodation to the affected students
A
statement by Dean, Students’ Affairs (DSA), Prof Peter Akah said the
students were allotted bed space on first-come-first-served basis. The
students, it added, presented their original online allocation papers
and identity cards that enabled management to relocate them to Nkrumah
Hall, Mary Slessor Hall and Zik’s Flat Hostel.
Ugochi Okechukwu, a 100-Level English and Literary Studies student, said management’s decision took them by surprise.
Her words: “The
management has done its best by giving us another hostel. It is a good
development we have been relocated. They did not leave us hanging around
in the school, looking for accommodation and trying to pair room with
friends. We are surprised by the school decision.”
While
the fire victims have settle down in their new accommodation, some have
urged the school to compensate them for their documents and properties
lost in the inferno. A 300-Level Economics student, who identified
herself as Adaeze, said allocation of new hostels to the fire victims
was not enough to compensate the students.
She said: “Most
of them had travelled when the incident happened, so they could not
evacuate their properties while their rooms were being razed. I expected
the school to compensate them, because some of them lost vital
documents. The school should be commended for allocating new hostels to
them, but I believe the students deserve more.”
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