AS part of efforts to address the persistent accreditation crises confronting the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA) and most importantly the recent protest by the medical students of the College of Health Sciences of the institution, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called on the governing council to wade into the crisis.

The NMA President, Dr. Osahan Enabulele, said in a statement in Abuja Tuesday that the protest which was hinged on the lingering non-accreditation of the college by both the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) to operate full academic activities in the college primarily due to failure of the university’s  management to provide the needed infrastructural facilities and academic staff required for the training of doctors by the college in line with extant regulatory guidelines has led to the disruption of activities in the university on Monday, June 3, 2013 with a spill over to the immediate university environs.

Enabulele said according to the investigations carried out by the NMA, it was revealed that the College of Health Sciences was inaugurated in 2005 with the recruitment of basic staff for the take-off of the Faculty of Medicine despite unavailable infrastructural facilities with the first set of students admitted for the 2005/2006 academic session. Five sets of students had been admitted since then. The first set of students at the University of Abuja has spent eight years and has not moved beyond 300 level.