4 months after, MAPOLY lecturers suspend strike

The Academic Staff of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic has finally suspended its four-month-old strike.

The strike which was started due to the lecturers' disagreement over the conversion of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic to a University of Technolgy and the creation of another state polytechnic in Ipokia was called off on Wednesday, January 3, 2017.

The lecturers reportedly argued that the government did not follow due process in converting MAPOLY to a university.

Explaining the reason for the call off of the strike, the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic in MAPOLY, Kola Abiola said the suspension was prompted by interventions and appeals by stakeholders.

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He said, “upon several appeals and interventions from within and outside, we put all the appeals to our congress and the Congress, in its wisdom, decided that, upon these appeals, we suspend this strike to allow the state government look at grey areas raised,”

“Government has all our issues with them. For the sake of the system to continue to run, when the crisis was starting, we went to prominent people to intervene and now that they are intervening, even for deliberation and discussion to go on while the academic activities can also go on,”

20 MAPOLY students arrested during protest

Meanwhile, the students of the polytechnic had staged series of protest to one of which led to the arrest of 20 students for alleged arson in December 2017.

The protesting students took to the street of Abeokuta on Monday, December 18, disrupting vehicular movement in Pansheke area of the state capital.

The protest tagged ''black week'' reportedly turned violent as the students made a bonfire on roads and allegedly attempted to burn properties.