The Imo State University IMSU, is literally boiling following plan by in – coming students to demonstrate should they fail to gain admission into the Institution and enjoy the free education to be introduced this academic year by the Gov Rochas Okorocha administration.
According to sources, the would be students are spoiling for war over what they described as a deliberate ploy to deny them admission through the Post – University Matriculation Examination, otherwise called aptitude test.
Some of the students who spoke to Imo Trumpeta alleged that they have the fear that they may be deliberately failed in order to meet the quota of number of students who will enjoy the Okorocha scholarship.
Imo Trumpeta investigation unveiled that the current admission in IMSU will admit 30% indigenes who would enjoy the free education and 70% non – indigenes that will pay school fees.
The students are therefore alleging that the number of Imo- born students that applied for admission at IMSU are large in number, which may necessitated the school authority to cut the number, no matter their scores, in other not to over – shoot the number of students for free education.
They told Imo Trumpeta that non indigenous students are likely going to have easy sail on the post – UME, since they will pay and invariably fund the Institution.
The students are crying that they would lose the opportunity for University admission this year with the system presently at play in IMSU, where all of them applied for the purpose of enjoying free education.
“If I know I would have applied for UNILAG where my parents live. Now I am likely going to miss gaining admission this year in my search of free education, which has now failed” Joyce Okere told Imo Trumpeta.
Meanwhile, a source at IMSU who spoke to Imo Trumpeta under anonymity denied all the allegations, saying that the Institution just conducted the Post – UME, whose results have not even been released yet and wondered where the students got their information from.
He said that Nigeria University Commission NUC, gave IMSU the directive to admit only (3,400) three thousand four hundred students this academic year, adding that only those who passed on merit would be admitted.
