Amalgam of students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology(LAUTECH) on Wednesday berated the governments of Osun and Oyo for their seeming insensitivity over their plights as lecturers in the university embarked on another turn of strike.
The students who staged a peaceful protest within Osogbo metropolis, lamented the psychological trauma they have been subjected to as a result of continuous interruption in their academic calendar.
They consciously and emotionally expressed their frustrations through different inscriptions on their various placards.
While some carried inscription like “Aregbesola and Ajimobi have finished us”, some said” Aregbesola and Ajimobi are callous and mean,” Some decried the extension of the stipulated duration of their courses this way” 5 years course turned to 7″ , Aregbesola, Ajimobi, you are wicked.”
The procession of the protesting students, however, caused gridlock for several hours, despite the presence of the police who guided the students to prevent the protest from degenerating into violence.
DAILY POST recalls that academic staff of the ivory tower, under the auspices of Academic staff Union of Universities(ASUU) had on May 2016 embarked on industrial action to press home their demand for the payment of backlog of unpaid salaries and allowances.
The strike was, however, called off on February 2017, after keeping students at home for over 8 months.
To the chagrin of the students, therefore, the lecturers again called out their members for an industrial action again in about two weeks ago to demand for their outstanding salaries, the development that prompted the students to disrupt Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) scheduled to hold on the campus recently and other protests.
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