President Edgar Lungu has threatened to close the Copperbelt University CBU and the University of Zambia UNZA respectively, if the institutions’ students continue rioting and causing damage to public property.

President Lungu wonders why students at the two public universities are the only ones always involved in riots damaging public and private property.

He says it was unjustified for students to come from their respective homes only to destroy public and institutional property.

President Lungu was speaking in Kitwe today when he inspected newly rehabilitated Zambia Institute of Business and Industrial Practice (ZIBSIP).

On Monday students at the Copperbelt University took to the street after they were prevented from writing examinations for failing their continuous assessment, which is a prerequisite for writing final examinations.