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”.
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