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Techfile: Student Faints, Policeman Injured As MAPOLY Students Protest - education
A female student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic,
Abeokuta, Ogun State, collapsed, while a
policeman was injured on Monday as scores of
students of the higher institution took to the
streets to protest their inability to sit for their
second semester examination since September
18.
The students who launched what they tagged ‘black
week,’ said the protest was mainly due to inability of
the students to commence second semester
examination, which was earlier scheduled to
commence on September.
It will be recalled that the Academic Staff Union of
Polytechnics, MAPOLY chapter, had postponed
indefinitely the second semester examination
scheduled for September 18, based on the state
government’s creation of Moshood Abiola University
of Science and Technology out of MAPOLY.
The state government also created the Ogun State
Polytechnic, Ipokia.
There has been a lingering face-off between the state
government and the lecturers over what should be
the status and fate of the lecturers in the proposed
MAUSTECH and Ogun Poly
The students who wore black T-shirts commenced
their protest march at Pansheke, a major terminus to
their school, and moved through Oke Ilewo-Kuto-
NNPC junction and terminated it at the governor’s
office at Oke Mosan, chanting solidarity songs.
Traffic and vehicular activities along these routes
were disrupted for many hours.
Some of the students were seen armed with placards
with different inscriptions, such as “Bring back our
exam,” and “MAPOLY must survive,” among others.
The students said their second semester examination
had been slated twice but on the two occasions, it
was postponed.
They claimed they had been at home for three
months without government doing anything about
their plight.
The Higher National Diploma students in their final
semester lamented that they ought to have joined
others who have already been mobilised for the one-
year National Youth Service Corps, but they had yet
to sit for their second semester examination.
The students, however, met a detachment of
policemen around NNPC junction, which led to a
confrontation, as the students were said to have
obstructed the vehicle of the policemen.
The policemen allegedly fired teargas canisters at the
students to disperse them, and a female student, said
to be asthmatic, collapsed.
She was said to have been rushed to the state
General Hospital, Ijaiye, for medical attention.
The students later marched to the governor’s office at
Oke Mosan, demanding to see him. But the governor
was not available.
The Secretary to the State Government, Taiwo
Adeoluwa; and Chief of Staff to the Governor, Tolu
Odebiyi, came out instead, but the students refused
to listen to them.
They insisted it was Governor Ibikunle Amosun they
wanted to see.
The students got restless and started hurling stones at
the policemen, during which one of the policemen,
Samuel Daniel, got injured on the head, with the
wound dripping blood.
The protest was led by the coalition of the National
Association of Nigerian Students, National Association
of Polytechnic Students and the National Association
of the Ogun State Students.
The chairman, NANS, Ogun State axis, Olawale
Balogun, said it was sad that the students had been
at home for three months, with both the state
government and the lecturers refusing to address the
students’ plight.
He said, “We will not stop this protest until the
government heed our call. We are appealing to the
two parties to resolve their differences.
“Tomorrow, this protest will continue by the grace of
God.”
Meanwhile, the state government has expressed
disappointment over what it called “uncivil conduct of
the students,” noting they had “rebuffed” every
attempt by the government’s delegation to address
them.
The Secretary to the State Government, Taiwo
Adeoluwa, speaking with journalists after the failed
attempt, said though the government frowned upon
the confrontation, “it will continue to interface with all
relevant stakeholders to ensure that all issues are
resolved.”
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