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Hundreds of the students of the Polytechnic, Ibadan, on Tuesday protested against the strike embarked upon by their lecturers since December 2013 by marching to the busy Mokola area of the city, disrupting early morning flow of vehicles and creating a logjam.
Economic activities in the area were also disrupted as traders could not display their wares.
Heavy police presence was visible which perhaps prevented a breakdown of peace in the affected areas.
According to Punch, the students later hijacked four of the state-owned public transport buses tagged Ajumose shuttle, discharged their passengers and ordered the drivers to drive them back to their campus after about an hour of protest.
The students also took over the back seat of a police van but no clash was witnessed with the security personnel or the public.
Some of the students said the government of Oyo State was insensitive towards their plight by not quickening the pace of its negotiation with the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic.
The institution’s Students Union President, Abiola Oladimeji, addressing students and the crowd that gathered at the Mokola Square, gave the state government a 24-hour ultimatum to address the demands of the lecturers, promising that the students would take another action to ensure their quick return to the classrooms.
ASUP President in the institution, Segun Philip, told newsmen that there were many issues that the Oyo State Government had ignored despite signing an agreement with the union in 2013.
Economic activities in the area were also disrupted as traders could not display their wares.
Heavy police presence was visible which perhaps prevented a breakdown of peace in the affected areas.
According to Punch, the students later hijacked four of the state-owned public transport buses tagged Ajumose shuttle, discharged their passengers and ordered the drivers to drive them back to their campus after about an hour of protest.
The students also took over the back seat of a police van but no clash was witnessed with the security personnel or the public.
Some of the students said the government of Oyo State was insensitive towards their plight by not quickening the pace of its negotiation with the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic.
The institution’s Students Union President, Abiola Oladimeji, addressing students and the crowd that gathered at the Mokola Square, gave the state government a 24-hour ultimatum to address the demands of the lecturers, promising that the students would take another action to ensure their quick return to the classrooms.
ASUP President in the institution, Segun Philip, told newsmen that there were many issues that the Oyo State Government had ignored despite signing an agreement with the union in 2013.
