Former students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife who studied at affiliate institution, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo have taken to the streets of Ondo to voice their discontentment over the continuous delay in releasing their graduating list and mobilizing them for national youth service.
The students who mobilized themselves to stage the peaceful protest at the school gate carried placards expressing their dissatisfaction with their and the kinds of negative experience that they have had because of the delay.
One of the protesters who spoke under the condition of anonymity revealed why the students made the decision to embark on the protest .
He said “Earlier today OAU affiliated students CLASS’22, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo now Adeyemi Federal University of education, Ondo came out in masse to seek demand for their graduating list, due to the fact that the management has refused to give meaningful update on the state of their mobilization and clearance after graduating from the college earlier this year February.”
“Consecutively, representative of the concerned student met with the school management in the month of October and the management explained that the delay was because the school portal was down but the necessary action has been put in place so as to collate student data from the portal and send to OAU for vetting and senate approval.
“However, the information reaching CLASS’22 was that our result is yet to be compiled within the school not to talk of sending to OAU senate for approval.
“The CLASS’22 set organized a peaceful protest staged at the front of the college earlier this morning in order to get the attention of the management and as well to hear directly from the management the cause of the delay in getting student graduating list, clearance and the exact time for students mobilization.
“The now deputy vice-chancellor of the institution Dr. Samuel Akintunde, took it upon himself in with of other instituted officials to address the students at the protest ground, that the results, graduating list and other needed documents will be ready as soon as possible and also promised that students will be mobilized for the next NYSC BATCH.
The students gave the institution’s management a two weeks ultimatum to fulfill their promises or be prepared to witness massive protests from the students who will take such measures to make sure their demands are acted upon by the authorities.
Reacting to the development, the Public Relations Officer of the school, Oluseto Olatuyi Abidemi said that the institution was not responsible for the delay.
“These graduands are not our students per se; they are students from Ife (OAU) in affiliation to Ife. We are moderating their degree students and their result is taken to Ife for moderation.
“Once they are cleared from Ife, it would be sent back to us for mobilization; that is the process and the process. We can’t force it because we are not totally in control.
“If someone is saying he should be mobilised in 2022, if we take their results to Ife and it has not been moderated by Ife, they have to wait; it is a process.
“Once they’re cleared, once Ife says these students are cleared, we will start the clearance within the system. They will go to the health centre, they will go to the library, they will go to their department and nobody in this school can say these students will not be cleared.
“They are being cleared by different points. If they come to my office for clearance, I will clear them.”
Credit: Sahara Reporters
