Over 100 undergraduates of Imo State University, IMSU, Owerri, have staged a peaceful protest in the state capital over “an alleged clandestine but carefully designed plot to deny them the free education policy of the state government”.

The angry students, who are natives of Aboh, Ahiazu and Ezinihitte local government areas of Imo State, equally moved their protest train to the Secretariat of the State Council of Traditional Rulers to lodge their report.

Some of the protesters accused Governor Rochas Okorocha of marginalizing them over their alleged non-support of Okorocha during the last election.

Other area of concern raised by the protesting students was the N70,000 acceptance fee forced on fresh students by IMSU management, even as they complained about the cheque being issued by government .

Addressing the students, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Chinedu Offor, blamed the undergraduates for the delay in collecting their cheques.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/02/free-education-imo-varsity-students-protest-in-owerri/

This ediot of a gov is just a fraud. he is even worse than the former gov. he is using the state funds to run a heavy adverts on television. even most of the projects are constructed on the pages of newspaper. what a shameless and silly gov

so an entire university system has been defrauded, every single living student, and only 100 found cause to protest?
Don't be so easily fooled people.

It seems for some reason these students protesting are not benefiting from the free education policy or they're been used by political opponents to deride the process.

Afam4eva: It seems for some reason these students protesting are not benefiting from the free education policy or they're been used by political opponents to deride the process.

my friend park well. go back and keep deleting posts, because it has come our knowledge that all you know how to do is deleting posts in a democratic setting. omo ibo ni.

They tag it as fraud because 100 students protest it? The commissioner already said they delayed in getting their cheques, that is why they dont have it yet. I know its over 80% that number who have benefitted already from this free education