Protest in Abuja as FG workers reject concession of Unity Colleges

Workers and commercialized national leaders successful the Federal Ministry of Education connected Monday successful Abuja protested the projected concession of Federal Unity Colleges.

The protesters gathered astatine the ministry’s office displaying placards, chanting solidarity songs and demanding an contiguous reversal of the concession plan.

They besides vowed to prolong their concern enactment until the Federal Government rescinded the connection and committed much funds to the affected schools.

The protestation followed the quality betwixt the Federal Government and teachers’ unions implicit the planned concession of King’s College, Lagos.

The government’s connection to concession the instauration to backstage interests oregon its Old Boys’ Association triggered absorption from workers and acquisition stakeholders.

The protesters argued that transferring nationalist schools to backstage entities could undermine their accessibility, affordability and relation successful promoting nationalist unity.

Speaking with NAN Comrade Gali Habib, a commercialized national person successful the ministry, said workers were protesting successful solidarity.

Habib said the protestation was besides aimed astatine protecting Federal Unity Colleges from policies that could undermine their nationalist ownership and national-integration objectives.

He described the colleges arsenic institutions wherever children from less-privileged families accessed prime secondary acquisition astatine subsid...