28 Students Expels From Redeemer’s University

According to the reports The nations gathered  about the situation of  42 students, who were asked to go for “routine tests” last year November.. After resumption this year, some of them were told that they “tested positive” and last Friday, some of those who “tested positive” got expulsion letters; others got theirs on Monday. Redeemer’s University is owned  and run by the Redeemed Christian Church of God. Some of the students speaks to the nations correspondence says that ? 

“I only saw in the expulsion letter that I tested positive to hard drugs. I asked for the result of the test, but they didn’t show me. Even if they won’t show it to me, they should at least show my parents the result,” a student said.

“They should have at least set up a panel of enquiry and if the panel finds us guilty, so be it,” another student said. 

The panel of the school govern was speak on behalf of the

The Director of Corporate Affairs, Adetunji Adeleye, however defended the institution’s decision saying it was was taken in line with the school’s religous norms and philosophy “to raise godly children”.

“A student was caught with an illicit drug. He mentioned others involved and we took them to the school clinic for tests. Some of them tested positive. There is no need to show the students the results because the university cannot conspire against them.

“Nobody should think anybody hates those students. It’s not spurious. In fact, it is even painful for us because we are losing revenue by sending them away. But it’s a painful decision we must take in our quest to raise students that will transform the world. The expelled students are those that refused the university’s lifeline of a second chance.

“We wanted to help them. The university has a programme designed to help them live a normal life, but they rejected the offer. A few of them accepted and they are undergoing the programme,” The Nation quoted him as saying.