The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), 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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