Ondo Students Shut Down School, Hold Management Hostage Over Failure To Go For NYSC

 NO fewer than 400 graduates of the All-State College of Education, Ero, Ondo State, staged a protest, yesterday, over the institution’s failure to mobilize them for the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC.

The college is affiliated to Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, AAUA, in the Akoko South-West area of the state.

Academic activities were shut down as the Proprietor of the institution, Fasua Oyeleye, was held up in his office for over six hours.

Oyeleye was later rescued by police detectives who were invited by the management of the institution

The protesting students barricaded the highway and insisted on a refund of their tuition fees for five years because the institution failed to mobilise them for NYSC.

Speaking with newsmen, the President of the institution’s Students Union Government, Olusola Gbenga, said: ”400 graduates are waiting to be mobilised. We now have two sets of graduates waiting to be mobilised. We protested because our school name was not on the portal of AAUA.

“The VC, who was DVC, had promised us that we would go for the NYSC programme.

“What is the purpose of going to school without NYSC? We will continue the protest until we are sure of our fate.”