BY PETER OKUTU
ABAKALIKI— SOME students in the 27 pilot boarding schools established by Ebonyi State Government yesterday stage a protest to register their displeasure with the way they were being fed and the lack of adequate basic amenities in their hostels.

The students, who were from Girls High School, Azuiyiokwu and Model Comprehensive Girls Secondary School, Ugwuachara, narrated their ordeal during an inspection tour of the model schools by the state Commissioner for Education, Prince Chibueze Agbo.

One of the protesters, Miss Chinyere Chukwu, lamented that the number of students resident in different hostels of her school was appalling as a dormitory that should ordinarily accommodate 100 students, now accommodated over 200 students.

She said: “We are going through untold hardship in this school. The school is not conducive for learning like other model boarding schools in other states. Here instead of about 100 students in a dormitory, we have more than 200 people.”

In a reaction, Commissioner for Education, Prince Chibueze Agbo, said the government was doing everything to ensure the provision of essential amenities for the betterment of boarding schools in the state.