Transportation Crisis: OAU students to protest on Tuesday
The Students’ Union, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, has announced a unanimous decision to embark on a protest on Tuesday, April 28, over unresolved transportation concerns affecting students.
The decision was contained in a congress resolution notice signed on Monday by Adelani David and Habeeb Oke, the union’s President and Secretary General, respectively.
“All congressmen and students are urged to participate actively and responsibly in the planned peaceful demonstration,” the statement said.
A copy of the congress resolution obtained by Peoples Gazette stated that the union resolved to “stage a peaceful demonstration on Tuesday, 28th April.”
The students’ body said that the demonstration would commence at 6 a.m. and would involve blocking “major roads and gates leading to the campus until our demands are met.”
The body also resolved that the demonstration would be preceded by adequate sensitisation of the student population, led by the union leadership and conducted in a peaceful, orderly, and non-violent manner.
The Gazette gathered that the latest decision by the students’ body followed prolonged concerns regarding the transportation crisis faced by students of the institution.
Earlier, on April 13, the students’ union, in a statement, ordered a 72-hour boycott of academic activities over the inadequate transportation system provided by the institution’s authorities.
The union said it was demanding the provision of sufficient vehicles for the over 35,000 members of the university community; immediate reintroduction of the existing transport system until enough buses for the new system are provided; adequate, affordable, and reliable intra-campus mobility for all students; and full consultation with the students’ union’s leadership before any further major changes to campus transportation.
Prior, a statement issued by the institution’s public relations officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, on Monday, April 6, said it received “50 buses and 30 tricycles graciously donated by the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu.”
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