Al-Houthi militia imposes exorbitant fees on Ibb University students, and it is widely rejected
English - Sunday 14 February 2021 الساعة 04:40 pm
Ibb, NewsYemen:
The Houthi militia imposed exorbitant fees on students of Ibb University, "in the center of the country", in light of a widespread rejection of these fees.
Student sources said that the leadership of the University of Ibb, appointed by the Houthi militia, has raised the university card fees in an insane manner, with the aim of making more money.
The sources added that the fees imposed on students increased from 3,500 riyals to twenty thousand riyals.
And these fees were widely rejected by university students in various departments and colleges.
Identical sources revealed Houthi and other threats from the university presidency that a number of university students had received of kidnapping and arrest in the militia’s prisons at the Political Security headquarters in Ibb city.
Shamsan Thabet, a student at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ibb, said on his Facebook page: “We were prevented from entering the college due to our objection to the payment of fees that doubled from 3500 riyals to 20,000 riyals, by a decision of the Presidency of the University of Ibb headed by Dr. Tariq Al-Mansoub this year. , Without any appreciation from the Presidency of the Council for the students ’conditions, following what the country is going through and the financial, economic and humanitarian crisis that society is going through, which has negatively affected the citizens’ material conditions.
The student Thabet added, "The Presidency of the University of Ibb, which issued this decision and described it as" foolish, "is the same council that was stolen in front of its eyes at noon, and in front of people, the university's treasury, with all its financial contents, three years ago, was the theft, which investigations stopped and was blown out. Forgetting".
He concluded, "We as students at Ibb University adhere to our legal right guaranteed to us by the Constitution of the Republic of Yemen, which gives us the right to free education, and we will not pay a single penny other than the fees prescribed in all Yemeni universities, which amount to 3500 riyals."
