NANS Issues Strong Warning To Federal Government | READ IN FULL
On Tuesday, motorists and commuters were stranded along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway as the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) South West zone, protested the current Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike and fuel scarcity.
The protesters, were seen carrying placards with various slogans and singing solidarity songs as they obstructed both sides of the road at Car Park C in Mowe, Ogun State.
Kehinde Simeon, the Ogun State NANS Chairman, said the organization was issuing a seven day ultimatum to the Federal Government to tackle the ASUU strike and the fuel scarcity problem.
He warned that if the government did not address the concerns by the deadline, students would shut down all major roadways in the South-West. He explained that the demonstration was taken to the highway to convey a message to the federal government because the road is a federal road.
According to the student leader, the association suspected that the federal government orchestrated the fuel scarcity in order to raise the cost of gas.
“One of the issues is the ongoing fuel scarcity which we perceive to be a kind of artificial scarcity which the Federal Government is trying to use to depict people’s opinion and look for a way to further hike the fuel price. We believe that they are using this to test run and if we keep silent in the face of such oppression and we do not speak out in the interest of teeming Nigerian students because we are the ones at the receiving end, and the masses by extension, it is going to be an aberration.”
“The second reason is the incessant ASUU strike. We see that the Federal Government has decided not to do the needful. A senator would be going home with an average of N100m monthly and people in the teaching line who helped these people in actualizing their dreams could not even boast of N200,000 monthly and they expect us to sit down, cross our legs and watch all this? They should listen to the lecturers, do the needful, go back to the negotiation table and come back with something meaningful.” he said.
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