UPDATE: Students Stirs Unrest As Ibarapa Polytechnic Goes Rampage

Ex Students of Ibarapa Polytechnic took the street on Wednesday to register their displeasure and grievances about the anti-poor policy of the school management.

The students in their large numbers were agitating about non-issuance of certificates and failure of the school authority to mobilize them for NYSC two years after their graduation form the institution.

Mouthpiece NG learnt that the decision of the students to disrupt the academic activities of the institution by locking up the school entrance gate is because of the management failure to address the issue after both parties had previously resolved to meet by 8:00 am on Wednesday.

Our correspondent reports that the students of Office Technology and Management department, Purchasing and supply department, Library and information science department, Civil Engineering department, Mechanical engineering department, Electrical Engineering department and Marketing Department are the one affected.

The protesting students who lamented the inability of the institution’s management to resolve the issues up to the present, also alleged that the management of the institution has mismanaged funds meant for the accreditation of the engineering course of the institution.

“We have not heard anything about this issue since our last protest, all our effort to get in touch to the authority concerned was proved abortive, our problems are yet to be attended to and we are here to show our grievances.” Ex student lamented .

Speaking with journalists, the National Senate President of the Federation of Oyo State Students Union, FOSSU, Comrade Wasiu Oke who is aware of the plights of the protesting ex- students, noted that FOSSU as a student body is ready to take up the struggle and make sure that the matter is resolve on time.

“We want to urge the Oyo State government to do their best to resolve this issue, the management of this institution in conjunction with the NBTE must also make sure that this problem is resolve on time.”

Oke further stressed that these students has been delayed for so long and their problem has not been resolved, he called on the school authority to come to the aids of the students.

Also speaking at the protest was the Chairman of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Oyo State chapter, Comrade Olujuwon Asubiojo who disclosed that the association is not interested in all the technical excuses giving by the management of the institution, he added that what the students want is for the management to resolve the issue without any delay.

“What we are requesting from the school management is to resolve this problem on time, the Oyo State government should be ready to fund the accreditation and the management also should be accountable for all the money they have collected.

While addressing the protesting students, the Rector of the institution, Mr. Eyitayo Iyiola said that the basic cause of the problem is short of fund from the Oyo State government and misinformation from the Faculty of Engineering of the institution.