We are tired of ASUU strike- NANS

THE National Association of Nigerian Students
(NANS) at the weekend urged well meaning
Nigerians to prevail on members of the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to
call off their three-month old strike in the
interest of the students.
At a news conference in Akure, the Ondo State
capital, NANS National President, Comrade
Yinka Gbadebo, urged the striking lecturers to
call of the strike in the interest of building
intellectual capacity for national development.
Gbadebo, who was flanked by the union’s
National Financial Secretary, Comrade
Timileyin Ayenuro, said it has become
imperative for the students to call on ASUU
to reconsider its present adamant stand.
He said, “We must, as Nigerians, accept that
the problem with our Universities has
developed over decades. So it is unimaginable
that ASUU with its present stand want these
issues totally resolved within a spate of four
years that this agreement was signed on.
“We disagree with ASUU on the notion that a
release of N400 billion per annum as being
demanded will resolve the myriad of problems
confronting the education sector in Nigeria
today.
Gbadebo said the agreement between the
Federal Government and ASUU is frivolous and
self-serving to the interest of the striking
lecturers alone.
He added, “While we may not want to go deep
into other details of the federal government
and ASUU agreement which are hitherto
considered by us as frivolous and self-serving
to the interest of ASUU alone, it is expected
that ASUU must at this point bring to the fore
the interest of Nigerian students whom they
have been claiming to be fighting for by
engaging the Federal Government in further
dialogue while returning to class without
hesitation.
“NANS is no longer comfortable with the
attendant consequence of the incessant strike
on the lives of Nigerian students and the social
implication on the society at large.”