The provost of the College of Education, Ero, Ondo State, Mr Oyeleye Fasua, on Thursday morning, made a plea to the protesting students of the institution to calm down, he said the issue of mobilizing them for the National Youths Service Corps would be addressed .
The students of the college on Monday staged a protest over the failure of the institution to mobilize them for the NYSC after rounding off their degree programmes in the institution. Their degree programmes was affiliated with the Adekunle Ajasin Univerisity, Akungba Akoko.
While they protested, the angry students closed up the Akure-Ilesa Expressway, and held Fasua hostage, demanding the return of their tuition fees if they could not be mobilized for the NYSC scheme.
The students also vandalized some properties of the school during the protest.
Fasua who spoke with our correspondent in Akure, explained that the institution was acting based on the promises made by the management of the AAUA that the students would be mobilized for the NYSC programme after completion of their programmes.
The provost, however, admitted that, though the Memorandum of Understanding signed with the AAUA for the affiliated programmes did not stipulate that the students would be mobilized for the NYSC scheme, he insisted that the management of the university promised to mobilize the students.