Students from Delta State oil-producing communities, staged a protest at the office of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) in Warri, over non-payment of their three years’ bursary allowances.
The students stormed the DESOPADEC office in Warri in large number to shutdown activities of the commission.
The students brandished placards of different inscriptions such as “Students lives matter”, “We need our bursary, education is now expensive”. “Askia has used our money to run his PDP House of Representatives primary”, “Askia paid each delegates N3 million during the PDP house of representatives primary but denying us our rights” “We need our bursary”, DESOPADEC is bleeding because of the looting of our common wealth,” and “Delta politicians have finished DESOPADEC.”
The students alleged that the Managing Director, of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, (DESOPADEC), Askia Ogieh, refused to pay them their three years’ bursaries.
Ogieh, had in April 2022 resigned his position as Managing Director, of DESOPADEC to contest the just concluded Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) primaries for the Isoko Federal House of Representatives but he was defeated.
Surprisingly, he got reappointed on Tuesday by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.
