Ile-Ife – Students of Obafemi Awolowo
University (OAU), Ile-Ife, in Osun State, on
Monday failed to resume for
academic activities despite the Federal Government directive for immediate
reopening of all federal universities in the country.
A visit to the institution, shows that none of the
students were seen on campus for possible commencement of academic activities
as directed by the Government.
Mr Abiodun Olarenwaju, the Public Relations Officer
of the institution, confirmed that not a single student was on campus
”for any reason whatsoever”.
He said that the few lecturers on campus were
around ”for reasons other than academic activities.
‘’Sincerely, none of our students show up on campus
as of today, but some of the lecturers are around, although they are not coming
for any academic activity, they always come around for other reasons.
‘’You know our lecturers have not totally deserted
the campus like that, many of them still come around to do one or two things in
their offices, but no teaching and learning activities.’’
Meanwhile, one of the commercial motorcyclists
operating within the campus environment, Mr Muraiona Abiola, said that most of
their members were suffering due to low patronage since the commencement of the
ASUU strike in July.
According to him, the usual heavy patronage by the
students has decline since the commencement of the strike, which forced the
students to leave the campus abruptly.
Abiola, therefore, called for early resolution of
the issues between ASUU and the Federal Government to enable the commercial
motorcyclists bounce back to business.(NAN)
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