• Flays Fashola For Talking Foul Of Protest
• Passes Vote Of No Confidence On Fashola, Ngige, Adamu
Nigerian college students underneath the aegis of the Nationwide Affiliation of Nigeria College students (NANS), yesterday, threatened to take their protest over the protracted closure of universities to the airports, the place they vow to close down the nation’s airs house.
The scholars have already launched into 4 huge protests on main highways throughout the nation to register their grievances over the lingering face-off between the Educational Workers Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Authorities, which has led to the closure of universities for over six months.
Addressing a world press convention in Akure, yesterday, the Chairman, NANS Nationwide Job Power on #EndAsuuStrikeNow, Raymond Ojo, who led different scholar leaders to talk with the press, careworn the necessity for sufficient funding for training.
The scholars flayed the federal and state governments for being insensitive to the plights of Nigerians because of the ASUU strike and attendant protests by the scholars, condemning their apathy to their predicaments.
The scholars additionally condemned the Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola, for describing their protests as unlawful, saying Fashola’s views characterize “an unlawful utterance befitting of solely rabble-rousers and political irritants…”
“We’re right here to tell all Nigerian college students and most of the people that we will start one other spherical of protest subsequent week by storming the airspace on Monday, nineteenth September 2022 to #OccupyTheAirports.
“We wish to let the world know in regards to the pains and anguish college students are going by means of. Nigerian college students whose mother and father create the commonwealth can’t proceed to be struggling at dwelling alongside our lecturers, whereas the few who acquire from our sweats and blood have their children overseas jollying and flexing.
“We’ll, by this assertion, not beg once more. We will be mobilising all college students to close down the nation. No Schooling! No Motion! Fund training now.”
Based on them: “The minister’s outburst can be one other proof that the Buhari authorities hates actual academic improvement. They’re by no means apologetic and are hell-bent on destroying each remnant of state welfare that’s left.
“They like to kill the general public faculties as an alternative of revamping them. Nigerian college students will not be shocked that the Buhari-led authorities doesn’t care about public training. In spite of everything, all of the politicians have their children education overseas, whereas kids of the plenty that represent 99 per cent of the inhabitants are solely match to be thugs, arduous staff, and intercourse slaves. We dare say that this cruelty won’t proceed anymore.”
The coed physique appealed to the nationwide management of ASUU to synergise with them to realize their goal of making certain {that a} state of emergency is asserted within the academic sector.
“We move a vote of no confidence on each ministers of labour, training, and works. We name on the Buhari authorities to pay all excellent arrears and salaries of the lecturers. The coverage of “no work no pay” is a fascist one. It’s, due to this fact, condemnable and non-acceptable to all of the thousands and thousands of scholars in Nigeria,” the scholar leaders mentioned.
