According to an Ambose ALLI University Ekpma Student

Dear Great Edo People…

It is with a great sense of pain i crouch to write
this and i hope someone reading this will be
compassionate enough to lend a hand. No one is
unaware of the terrible economic situation of this
country, workers are owed salaries, everything is
on the high side, the rich are smiling, the rest can
go to blazes for all they care.

Last year while new intakes were admitted into
AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY EKPOMA, their
acceptance fee was increased to sixty – three
thousand naira from what was initially obtainable,
as if that was not enough their school fees was
increased from forty – five thousand Naira to a
hundred plus,though they were allowed to pay via
two instalments and were assured of a fall back
to the regular forty-five thousand when they get
to 200level.

As we speak, more than half of these students
couldn’t complete the full payment of their fees,
they still owe the second installment. Bad as it
may, the official site for the school “KOFA” reads
that returning students are to pay the regular
school fees, however the students got the shock
of their lives when they got confirmations from
the Dean of students that their school fees would
remain exactly as it was during the first year until
graduation.

The school bulletin also confirmed it, the students
didn’t feel too good about it just as no
reasonable means to negotiate with the school
management has fallen on deaf ears, the Dean of
students has refused to set up a parley between
the students and the school management,
students are threatened with their studentship for
raising an eye brow, some were arrested and
tagged”hoodlums”.

A particular boy i came across who was in tears
explained to me how his dad a local government
employee at Auchi local government council
hasn’t received pay for the past nine months, how
do such people survive.
As i write, most class reps have been compelled
to sign one undertaking or another, they want to
frighten the students to total submission, the
students are living in fear. The students union
government has done the students no good ,
NANS and NAESS haven’t fared any better, they
all are been fed with brown envelopes to shut
their lips and most of them are either working
class or they just graduated which makes them
less affected and less concerned.

I am therefore writing to well meaningful people
of EDO State to please use their varying positions
to help we wailing students. Most persons
forfeited their admission last year and many more
are to follow if nothing is done, the country isn’t
in its best state, in the past couple of years,
armed robbery, cult activities and prostitution as
a recreational activity for students has reduced to
its barest here at Ekpoma, i bet you AAU EKPOMA
is about to send that brother and that sister, your
son’s and daughters back to the streets, are you
going to fold your hands and watch while AAU
toils with the future you have strive so hard to
secure, invested all your earnings to nurture for
these kids? AAU Ekpoma is making life terrible for
its students especially the present 200l students
with this fees. Please come to our aid AAU needs
you, the students needs you.

This wasn’t the dream AAU of late AMBROSE
ALLI of blessed memory.
#SAVE THE STUDENTS FROM THE STREETS .