OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON THE STUDENT PROTESTS THAT TOOK PLACE AT THE NUL (ROMA CAMPUS) ON THURSDAY, 16 JUNE 2022
It is with great sadness that the National University of Lesotho reports on the unfortunate turn of events that were a result of student protests at the Roma Campus. This, after the disgruntled students disrupted on-going examinations in the morning hours of Thursday, 16 June 2022 citing their grievance on the plan by the NMDS to pro-rate students’ allowances for the month of June 2022.
The University regrets to inform the public that as members of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service stepped in to ensure order and stability at the Campus during the protests, a student’s life was lost and six more were injured as per a report that the University received from the St Joseph’s Hospital (Roma) through its officers on Friday, 17 June 2022.
Through this dark time in which the University finds itself, we plead with our students to remain calm, and with parents and the nation at large to join the University in mourning the death of a young life of one of our own while those vested with such powers forge ahead with investigations into this matter.
Meanwhile, the University has taken steps to visit affected families, counsel staff and students currently undergoing trauma from the incident and deferred the ongoing examinations to resume on Monday 20 June, 2022 to allow students and staff to stabilize and return to a conducive environment for academic work.
We take this opportunity to reassure the public of the University’s commitment to its mission. As of today, Monday 20 June, 2022 examinations have resumed as scheduled and the atmosphere on both the Roma and IEMS campuses is calm and quiet.
