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 sex 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 sex 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.”

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