Students protest as flood takes over school premises, damage properties in Anambra

Students of the Metallurgical Training Institute, Obosi, Anambra State, staged a peaceful demonstrations in large numbers after flood, which they said has taken over the institution and paralysed academic and non-academic activities.

Chigozie Onyenyili, who’s the President of the Student Union Government of the institution, spoke to journalists at the school gate before the start of the protest.

He expressed his displeasure over the current situation faced by students, highlighting that they have been forced to stay awake every night due to flooded hostels and the subsequent destruction of their belongings.

Onyenyili noted that the perennial flooding in the Federal Government-owned institution was worsened because contractors from the government destroyed their existing drainage in a bid to build a new one without providing alternative measures to mitigate the flood. [CONTINUE READING HERE]>>>>