By Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting
National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Zone B, has given Governor Ifeanyi Okowa just 48 hours to suspend the recent hike in school fees in state’s universities or be ready for a showdown.
Deputy Coordinator, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS Zone B), Southeast and South-South, Oghale Emeka Rex, gave the ultimatum on Thursday in a statement with copies were made available to the governor and other stakeholders.
He described the sudden hike
in school fees across Delta State-owned universities viz: Delta State University, Abraka, and Delta State University of Science and Technology, Ozoro, as reckless and insensitive.
“This press release has become necessary after obtaining and critically analyzing the details of the fees to avoid outright anarchy, breakdown of law and order in the affected campuses and eruption of marathon protests in the state.
“We therefore, in swift response to the agitations of the affected students and prospective students compelled to resist the hike in the interest of the general public, the parents and the students.
“We dare state that this action by the respective managements is to say the least reprehensible, callous, insensitive and repugnant to natural justice,” he posited.
The students body, therefore, made the following demands namely:
“That the implementation of the proposed new fees of Delta state university of science and technology ozoro be suspended forthwith and be reviewed downward to a total amount not higher than the sum of seventy thousand naira only (70,000).
“That the increment in the school fees of Delta state university Abraka be reversed to status quo with immediate effect.
“That any other state owned institution in Delta state planning any hike in school fees should jettison that intention as any action not in the interest of the Nigerian students would be met with an unimaginable resistance and uprising.”
NANS urged Gov Okowa to rather seek to “ameliorate the suffering and burden of parents who are also supposed to be beneficiaries of your prosperity for all Deltans agenda.”
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