Kwara Poly students protest tuition fee hike

The students who took to the street of Ilorin
complained about exploitative increment of school fee.
It is a season of students protest as Kwara State
Polytechnic students took to the streets to
protest fee hike on Wednesday, November 8.
The students who took over Muritala Muhammad way
in the state capital, Ilorin held placards with different
inscriptions explaining reasons for their protests.
The students' placards suggest the tuition fee now
ranges between N72,000 and N89,7000 as one of the
placards reads "say no to N89,700, N72,000, N85,200''
One of the protesting students, Damola Ahmed, who
spoke with newsmen complained about exploitative
increment of school fees.
"It is pitiable that the management of the school has
degenerated into telling lies that there is no
increment. They are claiming it is a policy, an alien
policy that says the same amount you paid in your
first year is what you will pay in the following year.
It is not done anywhere because there are certain
logistical payments that you pay in your first year that
must not return in your second year as such that
policy cannot stand."
However, the Polytechnic Registrar, Mr Moses Salami
said the school has not increased the school fees.
"We have not increased school fees and I brought out
papers to show that what ND 1 and HND 1 paid during
their first year is the same amount they are paying in
the second year of ND 2 and HND 2. This is very
clear. Now if it is the same amount they are paying,
where is the increment?"