Culled from Punch news
The Federation of Ekiti State Students Union has
threatened to embark on a mass protest if Governor Kayode Fayemi fails to build a modern state library and pay their 2012
bursary, after 21 days.
The National President of FESSU, Olalere Abajingin, issued this threat in a
statement made available to journalists on Sunday.
Abajingin said, “ That the annual bursary and scholarship award of 2012 be paid
to the teeming beneficiaries within the next 21 days from the date of this
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“Failure to comply with the above demand, the entire
students of Ekiti State will be left with no other option than to make their
grievances known through a well planned and coordinated public and mass protest
that will be the father of all protests so far in the land. We give only 21
days!
“If Ekiti, which is
hitherto known as ‘Fountain of Knowledge’ in the nation, could not boast
of a well equipped Library with
up-to-date technological features and Internet facilities rather than the merely dignified bookstore here in Ado Ekiti, then the
question of woeful academic performances being experienced by our students at
all levels is not crying for answers.”
Meanwhile,
the state government has
disbursed a sum of N21.9m to 450 students of Ekiti origin as part of the second
batch of the 2010/2011 scholarship to students of tertiary institutions across
the country.
A statement
by Ekiti State Scholarship Board stated that the gesture was in line with the
eight-point agenda of the present administration.
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