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Medical students of the Kaduna State University on Monday barricaded  the main gate leading to the main campus of the university in the state capital.President Goodluck Jonathan is expected in the state on Tuesday to inaugurate the new Government House, Kaduna, which was started by the Vice President, Namadi Sambo, who was then the state governor and completed by incumbent governor, Muktar Yero.

The incident caused huge traffic along the Tafawa Balewa Way, where the university is located and  forced hundreds of students and workers of the university from gaining access to the school.Some passers-bye, who were oblivious of the protest, had to beat a retreat when they ran into the students.
The medical students were protesting among other things, against non commencement of their clinical training, which has been on hold for over one year due to the non completion of the Barau Dikko Specialist Hospital, designated to serve as its teaching hospital.The students in their white ropes took over the main gate, situated along the Tafawa Balewa Way, Kaduna, at the early hours of Monday, chanting anti-government slogans.

They also carried placards with such inscriptions as ‘We are tired of Promises, We Want Result’; ‘Silent Achiever, Please Don’t Be Silent On My Future’; ‘Enough of the Stigmatisation’; ‘Help, Today’s Students Become Tomorrow’s Doctors’; ‘Accreditation Within the next three Weeks’; ‘Stop the Tactical Delay’; and ‘Enough of the Stagnation’.But for the intervention of the Commissioner of Police in the state, Umar Usman-Faruk, along with the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Barnabas Qurix, the situation would have been out of control.
The duo addressed the protesting students, but the students refused on the grounds that they were fed up with “deceitful promises” and that they would only listen to the governor.The Vice Chancellor told journalists that the university was doing it could  to address the problem raised by the students, adding that their refusal to listen to him was influenced by forces outside the university.