Students of Ladoke Akintola
University of Technology(LAUTECH) on Wednesday berated the governments of Osun
and Oyo for their seeming insensitivity over their plights as lecturers in the
university embarked on another turn of strike.
The students, who staged a
peaceful protest within Osogbo metropolis, lamented the psychological trauma
they have been subjected to as a result of continuous interruption in their
academic calendar.
They consciously and emotionally
expressed their frustrations through different inscriptions on their various
placards.
While some carried inscription
like “Aregbesola and Ajimobi have finished us”, some said” Aregbesola and
Ajimobi are callous and mean,”
Some decried the extension of the stipulated duration of their courses this way” 5 years course turned to 7″ , Aregbesola, Ajimobi, you are wicked.”
Some decried the extension of the stipulated duration of their courses this way” 5 years course turned to 7″ , Aregbesola, Ajimobi, you are wicked.”
The procession of the protesting
students, however, caused gridlock for several hours, despite the presence of
the police who guided the students to prevent the protest from degenerating
into violence.
Recall that academic staff of the
ivory tower, under the auspices of Academic staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
had on May 2016 embarked on industrial action to press home their demand for
the payment of backlog of unpaid salaries and allowances.
The strike was, however, called
off on February 2017, after keeping students at home for over 8 months.
To the chagrin of the students,
therefore, the lecturers again called out their members for an industrial
action again in about two weeks ago to demand for their outstanding salaries,
the development that prompted the students to disrupt Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examinations (UTME) scheduled to hold on the campus recently and other
protests.
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