The management of Federal Government College (FGC), Okigwe has been accused of starving some of the students of food since January, 6, for failing to pay N5,000 insurance levy.

Mr. Martins Nwokedi, who has two children in the school, told journalists in Umuahia, Abia state that his wards were being starved despite not being indebted to the college of any fees.

He also accused the management of the school of withholding their promotional examination results for last academic year, an action he claimed was both illegal and inhuman.

According to him, “the National Parents and Teachers Association of Unity Schools had petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari over it.”

In support of his claim, Nwokedi, who is a staff of Federal Government College (FGC), Umuahia, brandished the petition which was written by the counsel, Chibuike Nwekeukwu & Associates.

The petition read: “In Re: Illegal and unauthorised imposition of insurance levy on students of the 104 Unity Schools in Nigeria the peace and break down of law and order.
“As a parent I am deeply concerned about the condition of the students, who, by no fault of theirs, have been made to go through such agonising experience,” he bemoaned.

Nwokedi maintained that he was also disturbed by the fate of those ones that come from outside the eastern part of the country and what their parents would be thinking about the college.

According to him, every effort and appeal to the principal and the vice principal, [students affairs], Mrs. Rose Ihezue and Mr. Iroegbu Udoka respectively had proved abortive.

Asked how the children had been managing to survive, the distraught father and senior mathematics teacher said,” On their beverages. Sometimes, I take food to them in person.”

Contacted for reaction, the management staff of the college stood behind the principal and the vice principal, calling the journalists names including meddlesome interlopers.

Calling the bluff of both Nwokedi and the other parents, they literally drove the journalists away from the conference hall of the college, telling them to go ahead with their reports.

Source
https://orientdailynews.com.ng/education/federal-govt-college-starves-students/

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