27.Sep.2014 0 Comments Udeme Utip - Uyo
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NO fewer than three persons were injured on Friday following students’ violent protest that crippled activities at the Uyo campus of the Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic.
It was learnt the students’ leaders, under the aegis of the Joint Executive Council of Student Associations on Campus Association (JECAC), called out their members in protest against management’s alleged refusal to allow Students Union activities on the campus.
Saturday Tribune findings revealed that prior to Friday’s protest, the students’ council had met on September 9, to impress it on the school management to allow for the conduct of the Students Union elections in accordance with the constitution of the students’ body.
The communiqué, signed by 37 students’ leaders across all academic departments in the school, asked the management to comply with the directive or risked students’ unrest in the institution.
The communiqué, signed by Akan Iidongest Eyo, Chairman of the committee; the Secretary, Comrade Ibanga Michael and 35 others, read in parts: “It is the constitutional right of every Nigerian student to vote and be voted for as contained in the solidarity constitution of the Students Union of Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic.
“The continuous denial of our right is capable of causing the eruption of major student’s unrest…”
Asking the management to follow through this resolution before the end of the month, the aggrieved students, who recalled that the suspension of students’ union activities had been in force in the institution in the last 12 years, said they could no longer contain their bottled anger over the infringement of their rights by management.
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