main entrance of Government House, Owerri, to protest the continued
strike by their lecturers.
The students, numbering more than 2,000, requested to have audience
with Gov. Rochas Okorocha over their grievances.
The leader of the students, Mr Stanley Chukwuyere, said that said the
lecturers' strike had stalled academic activities.
He said students preparing for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)
could not complete their registration process and so would miss the
opportunity to participate in the programme.
"We call on the governor to end the strike now because our future is at stake.
"The first year students are mostly affected by this situation because
their colleagues in other institutions have started fully but our own
first year students are yet to commence registration," he said.
Some of the placards displayed by the protesters read, "Okorocha end
IMSU strike now; " "We are frustrated at home since the strike;'' "Our
future is now tampered."
The students refused the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on
Youth Affairs, Mr Kenneth Emulu, addressing them.
They said they could only allow the governor or his Chief of Staff to
address them.
The Police Mobile Force had to use tear-gas to disperse the protesting students.
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