Over one thousand students of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, (ESUT) had on Monday, frustrated vehicular movements for several hours while protesting against the allocation of some portion of their school’s premises to members of the Enugu State House of Assembly.
The visibly enraged students shut down the faculties of Management Sciences and Engineering and violently sent their lecturers who were already in classes out of the various classes they were teaching.
They also barricaded all major roads leading to the Enugu Campus of the institution with dumpsters.
It took the quick intervention of security operatives to stop the protest from escalating to other parts of the city.
The protesters expressed surprise that the government allocated some portion of the land belonging to the institution to politicians to erect structures even when alternative provision has not been provided to that effect.
They argued that most of the structures were very close to their lecture rooms, adding that the place was no longer conducive for them. A leader of the students, Comrade Aneke Ogbonna, who also spoke with journalists vowed that they would continue with the protest until their demands were met.
“We are appealing to the state government to provide an alternative accommodation for us, we are yet to be properly relocated”, he said.
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