Travellers were over the weekend stranded on the Akure-Ore highway following the protest embarked upon by students of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo
The students were outraged over the campus’s lack of water and electricity in the past few months.
Following the development, motorists had to take alternative routes through Ondo town to continue their journey.According to one of the students, who gave her name as Modupe, “we were treated unfairly despite the huge levies being collected from us.” They vowed to continue the protest until the school’s management found solutions to the water scarcity and lack of electricity on the campus.
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