came under fire on Thursday when a group of students drawn from
various higher institutions in the state marched on a street protest
where they assembled at the Government House, Owerri, to express their
grievances about free education and bursary.
According to the students numbering more than 500 hundred who in the
early hours of Thursday marched through Wethedral Road to Douglas
House expressed reservations about Free Education which they said is
ashamed, deceit and only meant to achieve political gain.
According to one of the students' leaders who spoke to newsmen,
Comrade Stanley Peters Uwachezue, their grouse is the misapplication
of the free education which should have been bursary for Imo students
in all tertiary schools across the country.
Said he "Okorocha got it wrong to declare free education for students
in IMSU and Imopoly only. We are all part of Imo people. Those in
FUTO, ALVAN and Fed Poly Nekede and others should be part of the
exercise".
The students who chanted solidarity songs somehow disrupted business
activities within Government House Complex until security operatives
were drafted in to maintain clam and peace.
--Trumpeta
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