The aggrieved students of University Of PortHarcourt, poured out on the road after locking up the gates of the Choba, Delta Park and Abuja Park campuses of the university. This has caused an obstruction of the free flow of traffic on the ever-busy interstate highway by protesting students of the University of Port Harcourt.
The main grievance of the students is the deadline set by the Management of the institution for them to pay their school fees or risk missing the semester examinations and subsequent withdrawal of their registration.
One of student leaders, ANDREW OSOSE, told reporters that students of UNIPORT pay higher fees than other federal universities across the country.OSOSE said every effort by the students to dialogue with the management on the situation had been turned down, which left them with no option than to embark on protest.Other students also told our correspondent UCHENDUE EJIOWHOR that they would continue the protest until the management meet their demand for improved welfare.
While the protest was raging on the East-West Road and the Choba Campus of UNIPORT, another group of aggrieved students stormed the Senate Building on the Abuja Campus in a bid to disrupt activities of the management of the institution.Our correspondent LEVI ISU reports that the protesting students were greeted with heavy security deployment at the Vice Chancellor's Lodge.
Meanwhile; traders around Choba who depend on students of the University of Port Harcourt for sales are in for a hard time because of the protest over school deadline.Some of the road-side traders who spoke with our correspondent UCHENDU EJIOWHOR appealed to the authorities to attend to the demands of the students.Our correspondent also sighted some of the protesting students with cartons of noodles suspected to have been looted from a delivery truck that was intercepted on the East-West road.
Story lifted from Today95.1fm PortHarcourt
See pix from the protest below:
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