The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS),
yesterday issued a one-week ultimatum to the Federal Government and the
union’s leadership to resolve their differences or face corrosive
consequences.
The students have vowed that they would
take their destinies in their own hands if the parties failed to
reconcile within a week and that they will go on a nation-wide riot in
what it described as ‘operation occupy Nigeria’.
The students’
body appealed to ASUU to return to the classroom and continue
negotiation with the Federal Government since the latter claimed to have
released over N100 billion for infrastructural development and another
N30 billion for allowances.
“We are appealing to ASUU that since
the Federal Government has been able to release N100 billion for
infrastructural development and N30 billion for allowance, they should
go back to classroom and continue their negotiation or agitation. This
is our prayer and wish.
“We are giving them one week to open the
schools or be ready to face corrosive consequences in form of
nation-wide demonstration and riots. We are ready to mobilise for that
and it will be operation occupy Nigeria,” he said.
Lamenting
the effect of the strike, Obasi said students have become prone to
accidents on the highways and the female students have been reduced to
sex hawkers on the streets.
His words: “I stand to tell you that a
lot of accidents have been recorded and 99.9% of the victims are
Nigerian students. If they were in classrooms, they would not have
fallen victims of road crashes.
“Our female students have become
commercial sex hawkers on the streets in order to make ends meet. This
colossal effect is more than what ASUU is agitating for. Hence, we can
no longer fold our arms and watch things go wrong.”
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1 comment:
ADENUSI KEMI MARIAM
I appeal to federal government to resume negotiations and ensure quick resolution of the strike because years of studytime has been lost to strike and the future of this country lies on the hand of these undergraduate that has been at home for several months
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