BIUST student 'unrest contained and call for calm

BIUST studentu00e2u20acu2122unrest contained and call for calm
BIUST studentu00e2u20acu2122unrest contained and call for calm

This serves to inform stakeholders  that the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) students demonstrated on Monday 28 September 2020 demanding their October 2020 monthly allowance.

The registration process was completed on Friday 25th September 2020 and the submission for payment was made on Monday 28th September 2020 to the Department of Tertiary Education Financing (DTEF). The students’ allowances were to be paid on Tuesday 29th  September 2020. Indeed allowances were credited today as promised.

The students were addressed on this issue, but they persisted and demanded to be paid allowances immediately.  Rioting students intimidated other students who were not part of the demonstrations and further barricaded all access roads.  All these created a potentially dangerous, threatening and violent situation which forced  the University Management to engage appropriate law enforcement authorities  to contain the situation.

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