MOUAU Umudike Students Protest, Graduates Of 2 Years Yet To Go For NYSC (Pix)

Some Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU)
students today, went on a protest against the management of the
school in what many of them termed ‘playing with their future’.
It was gathered that some students of the school who graduated 2
years ago, are yet to be deployed for their service year. Here is a
Facebook post written by one of the MOUAU students, on why they
opted for a protest;
I deliberately refuse to dive into debates concerning Nigeria and her
challenges… This
time around I’m now compelled by the current abysmal situation that
has affected many
departments with more than 5,000 students, in Michael Okpara
University of Agriculture,
Umudike, Abia State, which is precipitated by lack of concern by those
who are supposed to nip this protracted problem in the bud. Some
departments in the aforementioned tertiary institution graduated a
good number of students in 2016. These sets of students mobilized,
were issued statements of result n had their convocation the following
year.
These department include
1. Chemical Engineering Department
2. EMT
3. Library and Information Science Department
etc.
Alas, it’s quite excruciating that today these students who have
mobilized n are due for a
compulsory one year NYSC are yet to serve. To compound the
problem, the school seem Tepid in their approach to resolving this
issue. When approached by some affected students they claimed they
have zero knowledge of issue of such magnitude. Is so applauding
that these departments have also graduated another set of students in
2017, n are at the verge of graduating another set this year.If this
problem is not address, the Nigeria students who have graduated from
these departments will continue to be affected. Therefore we call on all
lovers of education, NGOs, Educational pundits, Media, NUC and every
concerned body to look into this issue and save the dreams of many
Nigerian students..
# Today # we #say # enough # is #enough