*RE: AAUA SCHOOL FEES SAGA*

 

It is saddening that Education which used to be our major heritage in this part of the Nation is gradually being destroyed and made unaffordable for children of the common man. Thomas Hobbes observed that our personal egos should be submitted to a state that guarantees peace " in return of ego" 

We of the Congress of Young Intellectuals,  received with rude shock the sporadic shooting and indiscriminate arrest of AAUA Students that engaged in a peaceful demonstration to drag home their grieviences on the inhuman, arbitrary school fees increase. 

It will be recalled that Gov Akeredolu led administration in Ondo State in his usual demonic and insensitive style increased tuition fees of  Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko with an Increment of about 500% jack-up.

Anchored on the above, the students trooped out in their thousands to (in line with democratic principles) protest against the callous unaffordable fee hike. The students were cruelly humiliated, embarrassed, brutalized and some arrested. We are informed that, over 200 students have been arrested, while many were seriously injured. 

While we sympathetise with the students and parents of AAUA, we are asking the Ondo State government to unconditional effect the release of the arrested students and pay medical bills of the injured students. The state government should also review the fees to an affordable limit that is in reality with the situation of things in the State. 

Of the Greatest Ondo State Youths!  We are confident that better days are ahead. The time is now for us to take our destiny in our hands. Enough is Enough of this wicked recycling of Pharaohs in our State and Nation. 

Articulate Youths of Nigeria and Ondo State just as we are coping with this unpalatable situation, we beseech ALL Youth to dust up their PVC stand by and be determined to change this demonic change. 

Aluta Continua! 

*Comr Fapetu Adedayo*

*Coordinator General CYI.*