The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has been asked
to get its facts right concerning the lingering strike embarked upon by
the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The students’ body had condemned ASUU for prolonging the strike
despite certain concessions made by the Federal Government and had
threatened to drag the varsity lecturers to court for keeping students
at home for more than three months.
The chairman of ASUU, Kogi State University chapter, Sylvester
Ukwuteno weekend said NANS was ignorant and insisted that the strike
will not be called off until all the decisions contained in the 2009
agreement are implemented.
“We want people to know that the Federal Government is deceiving
Nigerians and that ASUU will not go back to the classroom until public
universities across the country are revitalized. NANS members are
talking based on ignorance because the strike is not just about welfare.
We are poor people like other Nigerians, who do not have money to send
their children to private universities, but infrastructure in public
schools are dilapidated. We have resolved that until our agreement is
honoured, the strike would not be called off. We have to fight now to
save the future of children of the poor,” he said.
Mr. Ukwuteno added: “It is better to delay the system than to allow
public education system in the country to collapse. We believe posterity
will not forgive us if we fail to act now. Agreement is a covenant that
must be honoured”.
-Daily Trust
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