As early as 7.00am this morning members of the joint union of ASUP and NASU were seen gathered at the Pavilion in the school’s main campus. They were numbered in hundreds putting on black cloths and chanting various versions of solidarity songs.Our correspondent who tried to get close and possibly take live pictures was restricted and his smart phone confiscated by the agitating members of the union. He was who later released on hearing he is a campus news reporter. The leader of the group, who addressed the crowd with a public address system was laudably heard saying “They want to idoghomise Auchi Polytechnic, should we allow them?”The crowd chorused “NO”“Idogho Campus”“Idogho Ict center”“Idogho Car wash”“Everywhere is Idogho, very soon federal Polytechnic Auchi will be renamed Idogho Polytechnic Auchi…”The leader spoke in length at the pavilion ground before the crowd moved to another section of the campus. A respondent who was among the crowd pleaded anonymity, when ask what they were there for he said: “We are here as we have been doing to make our grievances known, how can we be working for how many months and our entitlements and rights are denied us?Last year February each of our members, one grade was removed from our rank. That means our salary was reduced. Bros, you dey go market you know how things are going up. But our salaries has refused to go up. We know what our colleagues earn in other federal institutions…”Another respondent while responding to the question of how long the strike will last, said the last time a strike action happened lasted for about six months , he however attributed it to the insensitivity of the previous Goodluck Jonathan led Administration. He however hoped the Buhari led Government will look into this issue as they are the only hope for the suspension of the strike right now.Philipe Idogho will vacate her seat in less than 24 hours as the rector of the institution after serving for eight years.We contacted a senior member of the academic board to get the school management’s side of the story but he declined to give any information that he is not authorized to do such.The phone number of the rector is unreachable.The strike which started 6th of February is in day six. #Copied #from 1NYSC 2017 Mech Eng watsapps group

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