The rising spate of unemployment in the country has continued to bite harder even as some first class graduates of the state owned university are now seeking urgent intervention of Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike.
The unemployed graduates who passed out during the 2016/2017 academic session of the Rivers State University (RSU) when the university was still known as Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, pleaded with the Governor to save them from continued hardship which they suffer for lack of jobs.
Hakem Ikenna Ogundu, Grace Nyornebari Buekor and Robert Belema all of whom graduated from RSU in 2016/2917, earned extra-ordinary academic feats but have remained jobless since their graduations.
Ogundu, who hails from Egbu in Etche Local Government Area, made a cumulative grade point average (C.G.P.A) of 4.69 and was the first student to graduate with a first class degree from the Department of Microbiology in the Rivers State University since its inception in 1980. He told our reporter that he is yet to find a job up till date.
Similarly, Belema who is a native of Okrika Town in Okrika Local Government Area, made first class in Animal and Environmental Biology with a cumulative grade point average (C.G.P.A) of 4.56 and has not gotten a job till date.
Grace Bueke, said to be the Best Graduating Student in the year 2017, and was rewarded with laptop alongside seven other students because of their academic performance, and her cumulative grade point average (C.G.P.A) said he had 5.00 as at 100 level and kept it up all through. She was said to have gotten a job in a privately owned primary school where she earned N18,000 per month but quit the job due to inconsistency in payment of salaries.
It was gathered that previous first class graduates in the University were usually retained as Assistant Lectures based on their status as first class graduates but these ones seems not to be that lucky.
The three bright minds who graduated from the Rivers State University appealed to Governor Wike to intervene on their behalf, saying they were tired and dying in silence.
They urged the Governor to absorb them in the in the Rivers State University or any other state-owned organization or tertiary institution.
