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Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by REUBEN010(m): 6:25pm On Oct 16, 2013
He probably has some hidden agenda that's remains unclear to us
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by Luizkid(m): 7:08pm On Oct 16, 2013
E don tey wey we dey 4 Hunger Strike 4 Naija ooo, afterall food no even dey 2 chop.... Abi na because we no make am official
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by zeefever: 7:12pm On Oct 16, 2013
The man is not serious at all. Hunger strikes do not have duration. When people in other countries go on hunger strike,they don't stop for any reason till their demands are met. They are prepared to die if neccessary in the process and sometimes,they actually do.
He probably just wants to lose a little weight.
Anyway,in this country,if he likes,he should go on hunger strike for a year. He's on his own.
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by Chinnwa: 8:40pm On Oct 16, 2013
hahahaha i can't stop laffin, shee u wan die ni?
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by Onosbillion(m): 9:05pm On Oct 16, 2013
Pls o bros, i just called Jonathan and he said: how does dat affect increase in death rate?
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by fishmakas: 9:07pm On Oct 16, 2013
Na only two daz y u no make two months as a gud citizen of 9jar
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by ChuckD1(m): 10:23pm On Oct 16, 2013
Only two days? This man is not serious.
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by Happytina(f): 11:55pm On Oct 16, 2013
Hunger strike kwaa. Yaa waa thing
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by prof800(m): 12:34am On Oct 17, 2013
two strikes don't make a right.
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by Maygold30: 5:05am On Oct 17, 2013
And how would that make FG call of the stike.
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by kun04Ley(m): 5:24am On Oct 17, 2013
[color=#990000][/color] ;DHunger strike or advert, who is bailin d other out
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by RFella(m): 5:39am On Oct 17, 2013
Make dis man nor try am ooh....9ja nor care sef, if he like make he light fire for he body
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by DbestBenG(m): 6:39am On Oct 17, 2013
Let me ask u a question... Even if u are 2 go 4 an hunger strike... What good have u done 4 nigeria....
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by Nobody: 8:20am On Oct 17, 2013
dont forget to write ur will if at all u av any property to willed out.....u fit include my name in d will sha
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by vikeyz(m): 8:53am On Oct 17, 2013
Hmn...gud move buh not effective, i jux pray he continues till the end of the strike
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by AbiJr: 12:54pm On Oct 17, 2013
pls let d man add two more days for ASUP too plssssss
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by Reski2500(m): 3:40pm On Oct 17, 2013
chelseabmw: Like this post if you want ASUU strike to be called off
like dis if u tink dis is a foolish question
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by Lawconfessor(f): 4:13pm On Oct 17, 2013
Reski2500: like dis if u tink dis is a foolish question


Kids!
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by kulumo: 11:42am On Oct 18, 2013
Please advice them not to bother,na hunger go kill them as GEJ will not do a thing.
Re: Hours Into Hunger Strike, Activists Give ASUU, FG Ultimatum To End Strike by Nobody: 12:29pm On Oct 22, 2013
Hours into hunger strike . . . Activists give ASUU, FG ultimatum to end varsity strike

By News Express on 22/10/2013


Image: Vanguard Newspaper

The two-day hunger strike embarked upon this morning by members of the Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) is only the beginning of the civil disobedience strategy adopted by the Abuja-based group in its bid to end the almost four months old industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

“This is only the first phase of our civil disobedience activity as we will proceed to the next stage if after 14 days the strike is not called off,” HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, said this morning at a press conference at the group’s national secretariat in the Maitama area of the Nigerian capital.

He variously described the strike as “a conspiracy by the elites against the commoners and the poor” and “a crime against humanity.”

Below is the text of Onwubiko’s address entitled “HURIWA embarks on hunger strike to protest prolonged closure of public universities as a result of disagreement and breach of 2009 contract between FGN and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)”:

“Gentlemen you are welcome. We are briefing you today about our decision to embark on 6am to 6pm hunger strike which took effect from 6am today and will end tomorrow.

“We are protesting the 4 months old strike action by ASUU and the non-nonchalant attitude of the federal government to do the needful to enable public universities to re-open for normal academic activities to resume. We view the prolonged strike as a conspiracy by the elites against the commoners and the poor since 90 percent of the students affected by this shameful industrial action are children of the very poor of the Nigeria society. Children of the rich and the political elites are either schooling in some of the best schools in Europe and the USA or if at all are they are in Nigeria school system they are usually enrolled in the few highly expensive private universities whereby their parents pay these obscene school fees using financial resources drawn from the public treasury which they are in custody of as political office holders.

“Secondly, the closure of these public universities is a total negation of Nigeria’s international obligations in line with the Universal Declarations of Human Rights Articles 26 which states thus; “Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory, Technical and Professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.”

“Article 26(2) importantly stressed that; “Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the UN for maintenance of peace.”

“The continuous closure of public universities is a total breach of the right to development and by so doing will deny the Nigerian youth of their inalienable rights to enjoy economic, social, cultural and political development.

“Denial of education as is being perpetrated through the closure of public universities and other educational institutions amounts to a crime against humanity since it is a direct abuse of all the choicest rights enshrined in chapter four of the Nigerian Constitution.

“We hereby call on government to take lawful measures to reopen the public universities even as we urge ASUU to go back to school for the sake of our children.

“We acknowledge that it is a serious crime to breach an agreement and we hereby advise that both ASUU and FG should separately constitute legal teams to take position on what legal measures to be adopted to compel government to comply. ASUU may institute legal challenge to question government’s violation of the contract signed since 2009 even as the public universities must be reopened and academic activities commenced while the legal questions are being tackled at appropriate industrial and/or court of competent jurisdiction on its part, FG must adequately fund the educational sector optimally by cutting down on high cost of governance and by adopting the Steve Oronsanye’s report to reduce the number of agencies that do some jobs at exorbitant cost to the Nigerian people.

“This is only the first phase of our civil disobedience activity as we will proceed to the next stage if after 14 days the strike is not called off.”

•Photo shows ASUU National President, Dr. Nasir Fagge.


Source: NewsExpress

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