{"id":58920,"date":"2019-04-29T10:37:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T10:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metronewsng.online\/?p=50680"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:37:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T10:37:58","slug":"breaking-protests-hit-imo-polytechnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/breaking-protests-hit-imo-polytechnic\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Protests hit Imo polytechnic"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the time of the protests, students, as well as staff of the institution, could not have access into the institution because the gate was locked.<\/p>\n

Their reason, according to the protesters, was to express their disapproval of the announcement of the relocation of the institution to Ehime Mbano local government area of the state.<\/p>\n

It should be recalled that the Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, through his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, recently made public a press statement, that the Imo Poly, has been relocated to Ehime Mbano.<\/p>\n

However, some of the protesters who called on\u00a0 us said that they would continue the protest until the government listened to them.<\/p>\n

Details coming…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of protesters, Monday, blocked the entrance to the Imo State Polytechnic Umuagwo in Ohaji\/Egbema local government area of Imo state.We gathered that the protests kicked off at about 08:58 am at the front of the institution\u2019s gate, by the people said to be from Ohaji\/Egbema. At the time of the protests, students, as well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3244,2876],"class_list":["post-58920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-imo-polytechnic","tag-protests","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}