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By Joseph Tumbey

Afric Daily Newspaper- Monrovia;The students of the Monrovia Vocational Training Center MVTC stage a daylong protest due to lack of instructors and decent working environment at their Japan Freeway Monrovia campus.
The MVTC students staged their protest on Monday January 23, 2023 promising to continue if the appropriate mentions are not taken to rescue them from their present learning status.
Speaking on behalf of the aggrieved students, Student T. Gabriel Newton Sr. said their instructors have abandoned classes close to a month due to no salary while the entire trade shops within their Facility are lacking practical materials.
“We are paying 20,000.00 Liberian Dollars for one year and six months, absolutely no technical equipment and to Instructors on campus to conduct practical training.
We are here to learn industrialized skills but with no equipment or tructors, at the end of the day what we have to prove out there compared to our foreign counterparts”, the aggrieved students explained .
However, the Youth and Sports Deputy Minister for TVET,Mr. Petee Bemah called for calm and promised them to settle their grievances within one week.
According to him, they will work closely with the MVTC authority to make sure the instructors are paid and return to work sooner.
Speaking on the nonfunctional trade shops within the facility, Minister Bemah said the entire tradeshops within the Vocational Schools across the Country are temporarily in use.
“We are putting things in place sooner or later to have our tradeshops equipped to create a quality learning environment for our students’ ‘, the Deputy Minister for TVET asserted.
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