Some students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ijebu Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, lamented profusely after they were barred from entering the campus for wearing palm sandals.
The authorities said the law banning such, alongside wearing shorts and tinted hair had been there for long, but the students said it was unfair.
According to ‘The Punch’, one of the students simply identified as Durotimi said he missed classes because he wasn’t allowed on the school campus for wearing pam sandals.
He was quoted as saying: “It is disheartening. When we got to the school gate this morning, we discovered that the school management implemented an unknown policy asking students not to wear pam sandals and the likes into the school environment except shoes.
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“It’s so sad for a school like OOU with a very high reputation and standard implementing such policy knowing fully well the situation of things in the country. Not even everyone can afford a pair of shoes at the moment.
“Many of us had 8am classes and some of us were supposed to have test this morning but when we got to the gate this morning we were delayed for over 2hrs. It even got to a point where they had to use a police man just to make sure we didn’t enter the school.”
Another student, who simply identified as Ademola, said they were not given prior notice as to the draconian dress code after returning to school since the month-long ASUU strike.
He said, “We got to the school today and over a hundred of us were were stopped at the school gate and asked to return home for wearing pam sandals. Sadly, we weren’t previously informed that palm sandals were no longer allowed on the school campus. This is really sad, and unpalatable for the 21st century.”
