Following a seven-month standoff between the Federal
Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the National
Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has made known its intentions to halt
operations at all international airports in the country
The national body of NANS met over the weekend in Akure, the
capital of Ondo State, and condemned the way the Federal Government was
treating the lecturers who were on strike as well as education in general.
Students claimed that the four-day closure of highways and
expressways was a success, which is why they decided to stop international
travel beginning on September 19, 2022, so that the bourgeois and the
government would experience the suffering that students had gone through for
the previous seven months.
The NANS National Task Force on “End ASUU Strike Now”
Chairman, Ojo Raymond Olumide, revealed that students were already tired of
pleading with both parties about the necessity of ending the strike during a
press conference.
“The President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration must
settle all outstanding arrears and the lecturers’ salaries”, Olumide said,
adding that the airports that would be occupied will remain closed until the
strike is called off.
“We shall begin another round of protest next week by
storming the airspaces on Monday, 19th September 2022 to #OccupyTheAirports. We
want to let the world know about the pains and anguish students are going
through.
“Nigerian students whose parents create the commonwealth
cannot continue to be suffering at home alongside our lecturers while the few
who gain from our sweats and blood have their kids abroad jollying and flexing.
“We will, by this statement, not beg again. We shall be
mobilizing all students to shut down the country. No Education! No Movement!”
While berating the Minister of Works, Babatunde Raji
Fashola, over his purported comment on the barricade of federal roads by the
students, NANS passed a vote of no confidence on both the ministers of Labour
and Education.
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