In response to the high cost of living, expensive tuition, inadequate facilities, inadequate infrastructure, inadequate instruction, extortion, and intimidation at their various universities, students from Imo State’s postsecondary institutions have turned to the streets.
The students petitioned the federal and state governments to end the practice of regular tuition increases and unethical extortion through textbooks and giveaways.
In order to increase the quality of education and moral values, they pleaded with the government to construct medical equipment and infrastructure like power and boreholes, as well as to create favorable learning conditions.
The demonstrators were students from the following institutions: Federal Polytechnic Nekede Owerri, Imo State University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, UAES, Umuagwo, Ohaji, Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education Owerri, Federal University of Technology Owerri, IMSU, and Federal Polytechnic Nekede Owerri.
They also criticized Imo State’s suffering, which they claimed was brought on by the government’s misguided economic policies, inadequate infrastructure, and high unemployment rates, as well as the high cost of living, school fees, and student housing.
In order to lessen the pain, hunger, and poverty that students experience, they asked the government to enact people-oriented policies.
When Valentine Nzubechi, vice president of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), spoke to the demonstrators, he gave them hope that the federal and state governments would take note of their concerns and demands to improve the quality of education.
