Students of higher institutions shut Benin-Ore highway
Posted by: admin September 4, 2014 in News

Students of the Edo State-owned Colleges of Education, Ekiadolor and Igueben as well as the College of Agriculture, Iguoriakhi, and the State Institute of Management and Technology, Usen, on Wednesday blocked the Benin-Ore-Sagamu federal high way in protest over poor infrastructure and unpaid salaries of their lecturers.
It was the second time this year the students were embarking on protest. The students also carried out similar protest in June where they barricaded the ever busy Benin-Lagos Highway, resulting to heavy gridlock on the road.
During Wednesday’s protest, passengers from both Lagos and Benin axis of the road were stranded for hours following the barricade of the road by the protesting students.
Speaking to newsmen, the SUG President, College of Education, Ekiadolor, Emmanuel Amenaghawon, who led SUG Executive of other Colleges in the protest, said students were tired of ill-treatment meted on their lecturers coupled with neglect of their schools facilities.
He described the campuses as glorified secondary schools accusing Edo State Government of being insensitive to their plight, adding that besides poor funding, the schools lacked inadequate infrastructure for proper learning.
The height of it all, according to him, is the Edo State policy to the management of the four schools to generate at least 35 per cent of internally generated revenue before their subventions can be increased.
Amenaghawon disclosed that lecturers of the affected schools were already on a warning strike over the non-payment of their salaries, arrears of allowances and poor facilities in the campuses.
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This strike has been going on for too long and their requests are genuine , still wondering what Gov. Adams is waiting for , probably the end of his tenure

Just what is happening with these state govts? First it was Benue and Kogi, then Ekiti and now Edo, why are these governors heartless? They can afford to owe civil servants but not themselves, their aides and other political appointees paying millions in estacodes and allowances daily.
Owing lecturers of tertiary institutions for months and yet Oshiomole expects them to be productive, how can that happen? No wonder most teachers in the state can't write simple applications.
It's a shame on Oshiomole a former NLC P President.

APContherun: Just what is happening with these state govts? First it was Benue and Kogi, then Ekiti and now Edo, why are these governors heartless? They can afford to owe civil servants but not themselves, their aides and other political appointees paying millions in estacodes and allowances daily.
Owing lecturers of tertiary institutions for months and yet Oshiomole expects them to be productive, how can that happen? No wonder most teachers in the state can't write simple applications.
It's a shame on Oshiomole a former NLC P President.

I lost trust in him since the subsidy struggle when he was trying to play smart with the masses.
No saint in 9ja politics, not even 1