STUDENTS GIVE FG, ASUU 7-DAY ULTIMATUM TO END STRIKE

STUDENTS GIVE FG, ASUU 7-DAY
ULTIMATUM TO END STRIKE


Nigerian students have had enough of staying at
home due to the ASUU strike and they have
made this clear by speaking out.






As a result of the almost two month old strike,
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
serious consequences.



According to reports, the students said if the
impasse was not resolved within the next seven
days, it will mobilize students 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.



This was the highpoint of a protest by the
students who blocked the Asaba end of the River
Niger Bridge to press home their demands. The
protest caused traffic snarl for several hours as
the students stalled movements to the eastern
part of the country even as those returning were
barred.



NANS coordinator in the South-South and South-
East, Comrade Chinonso Obasi, stated that
students were at the receiving end of the strike
and vowed that they would take their destinies in
their own hands if the parties failed to reconcile
within a week.



“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 s*x 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
s*x 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.”