STUDENTS, UNIONS ON RAMPAGE IN FED POLY, ADO EKITI!

Academic activities were on Tuesday
paralysed at the Federal Polytechnic Ado Ekiti
as students and three major unions in the
institution embarked on a peaceful protest.
The protest was organized by the Academic
Staff Union of Nigeria Polytechnics (ASUP),
Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and Senior
Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics
against short payment of staff and bad
management of the institution.
The protest, which saw students carrying
placards with different inscriptions calling for
the removal of the Rector, commenced at
about 8:00am this morning.
The protesters accused the Rector, Taiwo
Akande for budget padding, cooperative
deduction of several millions of Naira.
They shut the entrance of the school,
disallowing students and staff from gaining
access to the school.
Representatives of the protesting groups told
journalists on campus that the administration
of the Rector had witnessed massive fraud
and the school’s Internally Generated Revenue
(IGR) had not been properly expended.
The protesters called on all anti-graft
agencies in the country to investigate the
administration of the Rector.
Efforts to speak with the embattled Rector, Dr
Taiwo Theresa Akande, was not successful.
However, the Public Relations Officer of the
Institution, Mr Ade Adejolu, in a telephone
interview said that the institution was not
willing to comment on the matter.





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