NANS LAGOS SUPPORTS NLC, TUC ON STRIKE ACTION; ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO JOIN THE PROTEST

The leadership of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Joint Campus Committee, Lagos Axis led by Comrade Ogunsanya Rasheed has thrown their full support to the purported strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress over the recent increase in pump price and electricity tariff.

The statement was issued and signed by Comr. Rasheed Ogunsanya, Chairman, NANS, Lagos JCC, to the press, on Sunday, Sept. 27, in Epe, Lagos.

The leadership of NANS Lagos fully supports the Action by NLC, TUC and also encourage Nigerians to cooperate with the body until the federal government do the needful.

In the advent of this anti-people policy, the leadership of NANS Lagos led a peaceful protest and give a public declaration of rejecting the incessant increment in PMS and Electricity tariff, calling on the government to reverse it.
Unfortunately, the federal government turn on a deaf ear, seems strike is the only language the federal government understands.

The increase in pump price is an injustice taking too far on the citizens of our country, as an association we reject this move by the federal government and are in total support of NLC and TUC.

Furthermore, the country is just reviving from a pandemic that has made most citizens loose lots of their income, increasing the pump price as well as the electricity tariff in this period is a punishment to the citizen and a sign that the leadership of the country do not care about its citizens.

More so, the association kindly indulge the federal government to critically consider the effect of this decision on the citizens most especially this trying times of Covid 19 and put in place policies and strategies which will help Nigerians recover from the effect of the pandemic.

In this same vain, the leadership of NANS Lagos as a means of solidarity support have directed the students of tertiary institutions in Lagos to stay off campus to show our support.

This strike should have taken place long ago!