No fewer than six masquerades on Monday led protest in Esa-Oke, Obokun Local Government of Osun State against the alleged plan by the state government to merge state-owned polytechnics and colleges of education.
It would be recalled that there have been claims that the state government was planning to merge the two colleges of education in Ilesa and Ila-Orangun including the two polytechnics in Esa-Oke and Iree.
The protesters, who were indigenes of the town, disrupted academic activities at Osun State College of Technology, Esa-Oke.
They denied both the students and lecturers access to entering the campus.
They insisted that they would protest against any plan to merge the college with any other institution, warning that the move may have untold consequence.
Speaking with our correspondent, the Owamiran of Esa-Oke, Oba Adeyemi Adediran, stated that the protest was peaceful and staged to prevent Governor Rauf Aregbesola from embarking on his plan to merge the institution with another one.
He urged the governor to shelve the plan, saying that the indigenes of the town would prevent any attempt to merge the institution.
Residents of Iree in Boripe Local Government had, penultimate week, protested against the allege plan to merge Osun State Polytechnic, Iree with the one at Esa-Oke.
The protest was followed by the press conference organised by the alumni association of Ila-Orangun College of Education.
The association stated that it have noticed a move by the state government to merge the two colleges of education in Ilesa and Ila-Orangun.
Its National President of the association, Mr. Ayobami Fakeye, warned that “the state government should not even contemplate the merging of the college with any other institution because the alumni sees the move as retrogressive, totally anti-progress, anti-peace, anti-development, ill-advised and capable of plunging the state into more chaos that it is currently experiencing.”
- Dailytime Nigeria, November 2, 2015.
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