Pandemonium As OOU Students Ground Activities In Abeokuta 

source: The Guardian 

  • Written by Charles Coffie Gyamfi, Abeokuta, Laolu Adeyemi, Lagos
Amosun• Ogun School Fees Slash Deceptive, Says Group
PROTESTS by students of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye,Ogun State entered the second day yesterday.
The government had on Tuesday announced reduction of school fees in
all public tertiary institutions. While all the other students union leaders in the state hailed the gesture, students of OOU took to the
streets on Thursday, urging the government to reduce the fees further and also ensure that payment of the new fees  take effect from last academic
year, instead of the next academic year, which is a month away.
At 7 am yesterday, the students again took to the streets in their
hundreds and blocked the major Presidential Boulevard road, leading to
the Governor’s Office, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, with their school buses.
  Members of the public, especially Civil Servants going to work were caught up in the confusion. The development paralysed commercial activities in the area as shop owners, commercial motorcyclists and
newspaper vendors hurriedly left their wares and scampered for safety.
It took the prompt intervention of combined security operatives,which included men of the Nigerian Police and the Nigeria Security and Civil
Defence Corps (NSCDC) to forestall any breakdown of law and order.
The situation took a dramatic turn when the angry students attempted to block the Ibara Government Reservation Area (GRA) road, in order to
ground all vehicular movement. This action forced the police to fire teargas to disperse the students from the road. In the process, four
students were said to have sustained various degree of injuries.
Meanwhile, campaign organisation of Gboyega Nasir Isiaka (GNI) has described the purported reduction of school fees of tertiary institutions in Ogun State by Governor Ibikunle Amosun-led government as another deceit from a drowning government, employing all political gimmicks to seek an undeserved re-election.
The reduction is coming barely a week after Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola bowed to pressure from protesting students of the Lagos State University  (LASU) to revert to the old school fees regime of N25,000.
The organisation also condemned the use of political thugs to disrupt the peaceful demonstration of the students in   the state and described the government action as “babaric”.
A press release signed by the Director, Media and Publicity of the campaign organisation, Mr Ifekayode Akinbode, noted that the reduction was not just a deceit, which cannot change the dwindling fortunes of the clueless government, but a panicky measure that exposed the shallowness of Amosun’s administration.
The campaign organisation of Labour Party (LP) aspirant observed that as soon as the All Progressives Congress (APC) lost election in Ekiti State that Amosun has been running around in vain to introduce fake populists programmes in the state. “But regrettably, it is too late because Ogun State people have made up their minds to vote out a government that is anti-people,” he said.
 According to the statement: “During his campaign in 2011, he promised electorate especially the students that if elected, he would drastically reduce school fees. This made unsuspecting students to vote for him, but he reneged in his promise.
“If the students of Lagos State University (LASU) had not protested and forced Governor Raji Fashola to revert to N25,000 school fees regime, would Amosun have thought of slashing school fees of higher education in Ogun State? It is not out of place to say this government was just receiving handout from Lagos State to implement and the reason why all the contractors handling major projects in Ogun State are from Lagos”.

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