UISU Gives Seven-Day Ultimatum to FG Over UCH Light Issue

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Oluwatosin Adeoye

The University of Ibadan Student Union has given the Federal Government of Nigeria a 7-day Ultimatum to address the consistent power outage that had adversely affected the delivery of quality healthcare services in the country.

This was made known in a release titled “Open Letter to the Federal Government of Nigeria on the Deplorable State of University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan” signed by the Union President, Aweda Bolaji, and the General Secretary Ogundijo Japheth.

The release read in part “We find it deeply disconcerting that UCH has experienced a blackout for over two consecutive months, leaving critical departments and life-saving services in a dire state – this, including the education of the University of Ibadan student-doctors resident in Alexander Brown Hall”.

The Union highlighted that the root of the ravaging issue can be traced back to “the price reforms introduced by the Ministry of Power in April 2024” which inturn has spurred an increase in the cost of electricity in the nation.

The release emphasised that the implication of the anti-people policy has continuously affected the masses “who already struggle to afford basic amenities”. Stressing that the soaring cost of electricity and the consistent power-outage has incapacitated healthcare institutions like UCH which is the last resort of millions of Nigerians, hence, denying them adequate health care services.

The Union stated that in lieu of the inconsistent power outage subjecting medical students to deplorable learning conditions, making it nearly impossible for assimilation and gaining hands-on experience in clinical practice “we give the Federal Government a 7-day ultimatum to address these pressing issues. Failure to act within this stipulated time will leave us with no option but to mobilise and protest against this continuous neglect by the government”

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