It was almost a bloody affair at the Obafemi
Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, last Saturday, when some
students of the institution and serving members of election-violence the
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) fought over the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) ad-hoc staff jobs.More info after the cut...
According to an executive member of the OAU
Student Representative Council, Akhigbe Excel, trouble started when the
students were barred from joining the corps members in the training, despite
the fact that they were shortlisted for same.
“INEC officials refused to allow OAU students to
participate on the training after they were shortlisted for the ad-hock jobs.
Even when the students asked they be allowed to join the youth corpers for the
training, INEC officials insisted they were working with quota given to them.
“The students insisted that until they are allowed
the training would not hold and before we knew what was happening, mobile
policemen were drafted to the scene to douse the tension.”
“Trouble started when the students discovered that
the corp members were writing their names to start the training. Though the
policemen shot into the air but the students refused to be scared.”
Akhigbe said the students were betrayed by INEC,
especially having gone through a rigorous process to get shortlisted for the
job which they are now being denied of.
Explaining further, the student leader said
“students from Nigerian tertiary institution were asked to register online,
which OAU students did. Some of the students have spent a lot of money as they
were asked to submit their original JAMB and had to travel to Osogbo to submit
the other forms.” It took the intervention of the DPO and the Area Commander of
lfe to calm the students down.
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