Students Give FG, ASUU 7-Day Ultimatum ToEnd Strike! Nigerian students have hadenough 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 theFederal Government and the union’s leadership to resolve their differences or face serious consequences. According to reports, the students said if the impassewas 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 endof the River Niger Bridge topress 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 billionfor allowance, they should go back to classroom and continue their negotiation or agitation. This is our prayerand 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,”
Posted on: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 06:53:06 +0000
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