2015: Why Poly Students Protest || Rector
Escaped From….
There was reported protest at the Imo State
Polytechnic, Umuagwo, Ohaji, with students
expressing anger over alleged collection of N20,000
acceptance fee and other levies by the management. Tension grew at the main campus of the polytechnic
when the protesting students confronted the Rector,
Rev. Fr. Wence Madu, over the payments. The Rector, who reportedly escaped from the campus
to avoid attack, was said to have been confronted by
the students to explain the payment of N20, 000 as
acceptance fee and another N5, 000 fee for those that
gained admission into the school without taking the
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Read also: Reprint Your JAMB Photocard Exam Slip Yourself — JAMB Official Disclosed According to the protesting students, the declaration
of total free education in the state implies that no Imo
indigene will pay school fees but that is not what
obtains in IMOPOLY. Our correspondent, who was in
the school on Thursday, reported that the Rector was
booed and interrupted by the students when he attempted to deny knowledge of the levies. Fr. Madu’s claim that he had no knowledge of the
payments angered the students, who queried the
quality of the Rector’s leadership if he had no
knowledge of fees being collected from his students. Madu was said to have thereafter escaped from the
school. Attempts by our correspondent to speak to the Rector
proved abortive as his phones remained unanswered
while other personnel of the school said they were
not authorised to speak on the matter