The management of Baze University, Abuja, has stopped no fewer than 185 Amnesty students from writing their first semester examination over their outstanding one term school fees.

The students were offered scholarship by the Federal Government through the Presidential Amnesty Programme.

It was gathered that the students were stopped by the institution when they were about to write the examination of one of their courses, Digital Entrepreneurship, on Thursday.

One of the affected students, who craved anonymity, disclosed that all the students (about 500) offering the course (GEN 201) converged at the Baze University multipurpose hall to sit for the final examinations for the first semester.

“All pre exam practices were duly conducted; we were searched, allocated our seat numbers and schooled on the rules by which we were to be bound for the duration of the exam.

“We were seated and ready to start at any moment when a lecturer informed us that he will be calling out a list of names, and if your name or matriculation number is mentioned you are to walk to the end of the hall.

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“Naturally we guessed that the aim of this was to filter out the students that had not met the attendance requirements to write the exam but this theory was struck out when we noticed a pattern; only amnesty students we’re being called out.

“We were then escorted out of the hall and taken to the registration block where we were informed through a ‘messenger’ that we have henceforth been suspended by the school from writing the final exams due to the fact that we have not paid our school fees for this semester.

“This was all the information we were given as we were left to scatter about the school. Some of us made a choice to write the exam as it was being held online.

“We unsure whether it will be recorded as we did not get the opportunity to sign the mandatory physical attendance in the hall before we were escorted out,” the student revealed.

Another affected student said the management of the university did not inform them about the development earlier, adding that their parents were not notified as well.

A senior official of the Amnesty Office further disclosed that the office could not pay the schools because of paucity of funds.

Meanwhile, the management of Baze University has yet to react to the development as of press time.

The Star