Southern Kaduna Union tackles el-Rufai over closure of university campus

The southern Kaduna Peoples’ Union (SOKAPU) has accused Nasir el-Rufai, governor of the state, of deliberately keeping the Kafanchan campus of the Kaduna State University closed.

In a statement on Thursday, Yakubu Kuzamani, the group’s national public relations officer, Kuzamani said the governor was hiding under the aegis of insecurity to abuse his executive powers.

Kuzamani said students of the campus were idling away, while their counterparts in other campuses had been studying.

“The Kafanchan campus of the Kaduna State University (KASU) was closed on the 19th of December, 2016 and since then it has remained closed and the students of that campus left to idle away unnecessarily,” the statement read.

“While they are made redundant, their colleagues in the Kaduna campus of the same institution have been hitherto attending their classes and by implication attaining a comparative advantage.

“Why then should the Kafanchan campus of KASU be still under lock and key under the excuse of insecurity when other schools in Kafanchan are all open?

“The College of Nursing is open, the Kafanchan campus of the College of Education Gidan Waya is in session, all primary and secondary schools are open, and in session.

“Even the Kafanchan zonal office of the ministry of education is open and running normal hours. All markets in Kafanchan, including local markets in the suburb, now function regularly.”

The union said it had been  consistent in its call for the reopening of the Kafanchan campus, but that el-rufai deliberately refused to heed its call.

Samuel Aruwan, spokesman of the governor, is yet to respond to the text message sent by TheCable, seeking to get his reaction to the allegations of the union.