Plans by digruntled and intellectually lazy students to invade Abia State University campus

It has painfully come to the knowledge of Abia State government that few disgruntled and intellectually lazy students of Abia State University, Uturu, are on the verge of concluding arrangements with a ‘rebellious faction’ of the highly disciplined and respected National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, to invade Abia State University Campus, Uturu, with the sole aim of reducing the University to rubbles. According to an intelligence report contained in a release issued in Umuahia by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy; Chief Don Ubani, the said students, who, unfortunately, have resolved to conduct project themselves as irresponsible rascals and unrefined vandals, are purporting to protest against the recently announced slight increase in fees payable by students of the University. The state government wishes to state that, in as much as it is ever committed to the provision of effective result-oriented functional education for her indigenes and residents at a minimal cost, the said students should not lose sight of the very simple fact that education is and remains a collective responsibility between government, parents and other relevant stake-holders and, so, cannot be left alone for the government, especially at the tertiary level. Chief Ubani made it clear that education is essentially an indisputable priority of the state government of Chief T. A. Orji, hence education is free at both primary and secondary school levels in the state. The state government wishes to state that the dynamics of Nigeria’s contemporary society made it imperative that salaries of the Nigerian worker had to be increased, coupled with inevitable increase in the cost of administration of public institutions, with its attendant pecuniary implications. It, therefore, follows that the slight increase in fees payable at Abia State University became an outcome of inevitability. It should also be noted that Abia state government believes in giving governance a human face, hence the stipulated fees in the University are not only categorized into A, B n C but could also be paid in two equal installments by parents or guardians within an academic session. Again, Abia State Government wishes to state, in an unambiguous language, that Abia State University is a veritable source of the intellectual pride of God’s own state and, so, any hoodlum or miscreant who is dreaming to cause any mayhem thereon, should better think twice and look before leaping because that is one joke the State government cannot and shall never tolerate. Parents and guardians are, by this announcement, warned to call their children and wards to a very timely order.

Chief Sir Don Ubani KSC, JP,

Okwubunka of Asa.
Commissioner For Information CULLED FROM http://www.abiastate.gov.ng