Final year students of Uyo City Polytechnic have vowed to resist what they describe as “another round of excruciating financial demands” from the management of the institution. This is in reaction to the proposed Abuja project defense and an extra Forty Five thousand naira allegedly levied on the outgoing students.
The students were dissatisfied with the proposal which would see them travel to the Federal Capital Territory to defend their projects at Dorben Polytechnic which the school is affiliated to. According to the students, the plan would also see them paying another Forty Five thousand naira allegedly meant for Alumni fee. They wondered why the management is asking them to travel to Abuja for project defense considering the long distance and the financial implication of such needless journey.
They also flayed the additional fee of Forty Five thousand naira imposed on them describing it as “exploitative” because according to them, they paid a total sum of Fifty Thousand naira as school fee before the commencement of their final examination last September.
A female student, who did not want her name in print, explained that the students cannot afford more financial demands from the management, since they had finished their final examinations.
“We cannot afford to ask our parents for more money not to talk of telling them about the Abuja trip. Personally, my parents had to borrow money from somebody before I could pay last semester’s school fee and that money has not yet been repaid, and I know so many of my colleagues who are in a similar situation”, she said.
The students who had mobilized for a peaceful demonstration to register their grievances were persuaded by the Registrar, Mrs. Idara Aquisua to jettison the idea. The students pleaded with the management to rescind their decision on the issues raised. The Registrar assured the students that management would address their grievances.
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