MAPOLY Students Blocks Abeokuta Road Over Lecturers Strike

Thousands of students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta on Thursday morning blocked the four lanes Abeokuta – Siun – Sagamu road, trapping hundreds of vehicles wanting to leave or enter the state capital.

The students who obstructed the traffic flow on both sides of the road at the point of entrance to the Oke Mosan Governor’s Office, Abeokuta with their buses, were protesting the nationwide strike embarked upon polytechnic lecturers across the country.
The protest was led by the Students Union Government President, Anbdul- Gafar Adeleye and other executives. They had embarked upon the peaceful protest to the Governor’s Office, to plead with Senator Ibikunle Amosun to prevail on the lecturers of MAPOLY to back out of the strike like their counterparts in some institutions.
Lecturers of the state – owned institution had joined the month old strike in compliance with the directive from their national body, to compel the State and Federal Governments among other issues, to enlongate the retirement age of polytechnic teachers as well as halt the disparity in treatment by employers of labour between graduates of polytechnics and that of the universities.