ASUU Strike Latest :OAU Re-Open: Students Desert Campus, Lecturers Present
Students
of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, in Osun State, on Monday
failed to resume for academic activities despite the Federal Government
directive for immediate reopening of all federal universities in the
country.
A visit to the institution, shows that none of the students were seen
on campus for possible commencement of academic activities as directed
by the Government.
Mr Abiodun Olarenwaju, the Public Relations Officer of the
institution, confirmed that not a single student was on campus ”for any
reason whatsoever”.
He said that the few lecturers on campus were around ”for reasons other than academic activities.
‘’Sincerely, none of our students show up on campus as of today, but
some of the lecturers are around, although they are not coming for any
academic activity, they always come around for other reasons.
‘’You know our lecturers have not totally deserted the campus like
that, many of them still come around to do one or two things in their
offices, but no teaching and learning activities.’’
Meanwhile, one of the commercial motorcyclists operating within the
campus environment, Mr Muraiona Abiola, said that most of their members
were suffering due to low patronage since the commencement of the ASUU
strike in July.
According to him, the usual heavy patronage by the students has
decline since the commencement of the strike, which forced the students
to leave the campus abruptly.
Abiola, therefore, called for early resolution of the issues between
ASUU and the Federal Government to enable the commercial motorcyclists
bounce back to business.
Source: Vangurad
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