LASUCOM students protest long stay, unaccredited course

Some students of the Lagos State University College of Medicine (LASUCOM) on Monday stormed the Ikeja, Lagos House office of Governor Akinwumi Ambode to protest against “unwanted extension” in their years of study in the school.

The Chairman, LASUCOM Association of Dental Students, Sydon Agbor, said the school’s final year students had been abandoned in the school over the non accreditation of Medical and Dental Department.

Agbor, a 600-level student, said without the accreditation by the regulatory body – the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria – the final year students would not graduate.He said, “We are here to let the state’s Governor, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, know that without the accreditation, we can’t graduate.

“The government has a role to play by funding LASUCOM in order to procure equipment, employ lecturers, build laboratories and other things that must be available to train students, which have not been provided.

“We have been on this journey since 2008. Normally, the course should be a six-year programme, but till date, almost eight years after admission, there is no end in sight.”

He called on the governor resue the students by funding the school so that the students could finish their study.

As of the time our correspondent left the Lagos House, no government official had come out to address the students.