Unijos electricity bill gulp N100m in one year – Vice Chancellor

The electricity bill consumed by students of University Jos living in the various hotels on campus has gulped over a N100million, says the Vice Chancellor Professor Seddi Maimako.

Speaking recently in a press conference to mark his one year in office as a Vice Chancellor, the VC said students welfare is paramount because without them there will be no university in the first place.

According to him, “conscious of our responsibility to the students who are the reason for our being here, we have within the period under review tried as much as possible to address the issue of electricity and water supply,” he said.

However, he decried the abusive use of light consumption by students, saying that management has often caution students on the arbitrary use of electricity.

His words, “when you go to their hostels, you see them using two boiling rings in one bucket; the water gets hot and they top it with more water because he or she is not yet ready to bath and this goes on and on.

“You also find them boiling beans with boiling rings as well as other consumable, leaving the light on when going for lectures; we have a case of a student who forgot his pressing iron on his bed, before he returned from lecture the pressing iron got so heated up and burnt the whole room”.

The VC said only in February, the University paid N26million as light bill, while N14million was also paid as light bill in the popular ‘village hostel,’ he said.