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Friday, 8 May 2015

Soldiers Take Over Federal University of Petroleum Resources As Youth Dares.....

The faceoff between the governing council of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun in Delta State and the Youth Wing of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) drove by Ovie Igho Anthony has taken another measurement as troopers have assumed control security at the foundation.

A reliable source at the 3 Battalion, Effurun encampment of the Nigeria Army who longed for obscurity told Daily Independent that the officers were conveyed to the foundation on request from above to checkmate conceivable breakdown of peace from the waiting emergency. The Youth Wing of UPU, it will be reviewed had issued a seven day final proposal to powers at FUPRE to conform to its request or danger inescapable anarchy.

The Youth executive, Ovie Igho Anthony had been cited as saying "we have issued them seven days final offer from today (yesterday). We are requesting for the arrangement of a substantive Vice Chancellor of Urhobo ethnic extraction in the University generally as it is done in every single Federal Universitie the nation over. It is a trite practice in the nation that where there is a Federal college, the Federal government more often than not designates somebody from that ethnic gathering as Vice chancellor.

"Urhobo ought not be a special case to that practice. Regardless this is not the first unfairness that is being dissolved on the Urhobo country. The Export Processing Zone venture is situated at Ogidigben and the gas to run the undertaking is in Urhobo land. We have not been given any thought and we were never counseled. We are holding up persistently till the day when they will come to Urhobo area to hotspot for the gas for the task that is the proper time they will realize that we are not dozing."

In a related advancement before, the administration of the Urhobo Nation, through it umbrella body, the Urhobo Progress Union, has through its President General, Chief Joe Omene and the Secretary General, Chief Albert Akpomuje, SAN, yesterday sent an appeal to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, to dissent the non-arrangement of a Urhobo Vice Chancellor in the college from the start.

UPU has in the request marked by both pioneers, encouraged President Jonathan to intercede in the emergency shaking the administering committee of the college and the Urhobo country, as an aftereffect of the interest by the recent that a Urhobo child ought to be named the substantive Vice chancellor of the college, falling flat which the establishment might be resolved. UPU has, in the request, likewise given seven days final proposal with impact from today, to the national government to make fitting moves to address its request.

Endeavors to achieve the University's Governing Council's Chairman, Senator Nimi Barigha Amange, were not fruitful as at press time. A dependable source at the college has however said the circumstance was troubling and fit for destabilizing the scholarly exercises of the school, asking the government to earnestly change into turn away peril.


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