DVC: ONLINE ROOM ALLOCATION TO BE INTRODUCED

By Mohammed Doyo

The accommodation department is about to go digital beginning next semester. Speaking to the 3rd Eye, the Deputy Vice chancellor in charge of student affairs, Prof. Ogechi said the new administration office has put full plans in place to ensure the department embraces technology in allocation of hostel rooms.

“Students will be paying fees while they are at home and book rooms from there before reporting to school beginning next semester. We don’t want complications and inefficiencies experienced in the manual process of allocating rooms every time,” he said.

The DVC also acknowledged that cases of corruption in the past have clogged the accommodation department forcing students to secretly offer bribes to hotelkeepers to get rooms in hostels.
“It has come to our attention that some janitors coerce students in giving bribes to acquire rooms. This must stop and the only way to do it is by going digital.” Said Ogechi

The DVC also clarified he was the one behind the directive issued to janitors to allocate Hostel rooms at student center with an aim of reducing favoritism and unfairness in the process. He observes the process conducted between 15th -19th was successful.
“Room allocation went on well and as long as the conditions of getting accommodation were met, every student was able to get accommodation” He says.

The DVC also hinted that plans are underway to build new hostels in the university as part of the plans by the new office to solve the accommodation problem. The project is expected to kick off soon.

In the past, the administration has issued promises on several occasions to introduce online balloting only to fail, latest being September last year where the MUSO accommodation and security director had promised to coordinate with the Admin to introduce the technology only to backtrack on the promise.