An education ad­vocacy group, Education Access Project (EAP), has cautioned politicians in Ogun State to stop us­ing students to fight their political battles.

The group, according to a statement by its chair, Dr Henry Adetona, condemned in strong terms the use of a handful of students of the Olabisi Onabanjo Universi­ty (OOU) allegedly by some politicians to disrupt com­mercial activities in Abeo­kuta under the guise of fight­ing for further reduction in
schools fees announced on Tuesday by the Ogun State Government.

“The protest is even more intriguing considering the fact that it coincided with the solidarity rally of nine out of the 10 tertiary schools in the state under the aegis of NANS, organised to thank the state government for the significant cut in their school fees,” he said.

“The fact that the protest by a handful of the OOU students, reportedly with­out any principal officer of their SUG in attendance, was allegedly sponsored by former political office hold­ers in the state, under whose watch schools fees of OOU increased from N15, 000 to N150, 000, shows how des­perate our politicians can become in order to rubbish the successes of their po­litical rivals,” Dr Adetona further said. The statement welcomed the decision of the state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, to reduce drastically the fees payable in all the state’s tertiary insti­tutions of learning from the 2014/15 academic session, noting that the 60 per cent reduction in fees would go a long way in providing more access to tertiary education in the state.
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