A kitchenette in C Block of the Great Independence Hall of Residence has been shortchanged to a room, IndyPress can report.

Kitchenettes, meant to be food arrangement powerhouse, are spaces used by students to prepare their meals. Designed for student convenience, the dedicated spaces simply exist for food preparation and arrangement.

Situated on the ground basement in the C-Block axis of the hall, two students, at the time of Press visit to the site, were seen in the room, which already had been decorated with curtains.

IndyPress gathered that the kitchenette, now a room, was allocated to the residing students in the absence of actual rooms meant to be rented out.

The room, which still has plate washing sink as of the time of press visit, has made it difficult for other students, who reside in the rooms on the floor, C1, to cook their meals.

A student who pleaded not to be named, due to likely repression, decried the condition of the entire floor.

“I could not use the kitchen again since a while after I found it occupied by students. What can we do?,” the student told IndyPress.

Reaching out to the Hall Warden, Dr. Adejumobi, noted that the shortchanged kitchenette to a room was only a “temporary panacea to accommodate them”.

The decision to convert kitchen to a room contradicts the ‘Ethics Governing Halls of Residence‘ University of Ibadan, as stipulated, IndyPress has observed.

Regulations of Residence, which strict adherence was required to and by all student residents, states that “no student is permitted to convert a kitchenette to a room. Cooking in the rooms and corridors is prohibited. All cooking should be done in the kitchenette. Contravention will lead to ejection from the Hall,” says (1)e8 of the widely distributed Hall handbook.

“Our concern is where should we cook our food in the absence of a place. It is a reasonable concern,” another student decried.