ASUU: NANS Hold Peaceful Protest on Niger Bridge

Nigerian university students on a peaceful protest on Niger bridge

National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), yesterday, 18th of October embarked on a protest to register her displeasure with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over its lingering strike that has closed down universities in the country for four months now. The protest, which took place in Asaba, Delta state,  from the Asaba-Benin end road  were the aggrieved students led by NANS President Comrade Yinka Gbadebo marched to

the Asaba-Onitsha head bridge and closed it down, causing untold hardship to motorists for hours.

While addressing the students, NANS President Comrade Yinka Gbadebo stayed that students are at the receiving end of the strike. He accused ASUU of insensitivity towards the plight of students, asking them to go back to classes immediately.

The aggrieved students blocked the bridge at about 1 p.m., which resulted to a traffic that stretched from the bridge to Okwe junction about five kilometres to Asaba town and the action was jointly carried out by some university students and in the company of their polytechnic counterparts were in protest of the protracted strike by ASUU.

According to the NANS National Public Relations Officer, Victor Ola-Ogun, said that the students were tired of the strike and appealed to ASUU to call it off. He said that the students had embarked on the peaceful protest and taken it to Kano and “now they are in Zone B, that is Delta and the Anambra area of the country.’’

He said that if the lecturers refuse to call off the strike, the association would further move the protest to Zone C and D, comprising the middle Belt areas and South West of the country.“We do not want a situation where our ladies will become prostitutes and the men armed robbers.

“We are always there to fight for the lecturers’ welfare and now that the Federal Government has decided to meet some of their demands, they should consider for our sake and go back to work,’’ Ola-Ogun said.