There has been tension at the Delta State University, Abraka, as students of the institution kicked against what they tagged the astronomical increase of school fees.
The angry students in their hundreds stormed the campus in the early hours of the day and shut down the main entrance gates as well as all other access roads, thus preventing vehicular movement into and out of the institution.
The protesters carried placards with various inscriptions calling on the management to review the increment in fees.One of the placards read, “We don’t want to be involved in ritual activities and sex trade in search for money for school fees.”
The students lamented that the management was pushing students into prostitution and ritual activities by its action and appealed to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to intervene without further delay and order a downward review of the tuition in the state’s tertiary institutions.
They stated that unless the decision on the fee increment was reviewed, lots of students would drop out of school.
An eyewitness said, “The protesting students, both Deltans and non- Deltans, arrived at the Abraka campus in their numbers and locked up the main gate and the gates of the other sites.“
