‘Support us, we are fighting for you’ – ASUU tells Nigerian students
NEWS DIGEST – The Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU), has charged university students in the country to plan a satisfactory protest that will give rise to ending the endless strikes that have been going on for months.
Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, ASUU national president, called on the students to take up the responsibility on Friday while speaking on a radio station in Abuja.
“We have to explain to the students to be part of the struggle, not saying ASUU is not doing this. Any day they and the parents decide to ask the politicians, where are your children schooling? If they said they are not in Nigeria, you don’t vote for them,” he said.
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ASUU bemoaned its effort to maintain that Nigerian students, regardless of locations or institutions, get the equivalent education as children of the rich, which was not being appreciated by the students.
“They have to own this struggle that we are fighting on their behalf. You don’t expect a student leader driving Prado, visiting Government House, and think any government will take you serious. When we were in students union, we dressed in jeans and a T-shirt and struggle but today what do you have? Wearing a suit, driving Prado around the country,” the union president said.
Earlier, Sunday Asefon, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), had condemned ASUU of never-ending pretence in meeting with the students union.
Asefon said, “We have met with federal government’s representatives and have heard directly from them, but all efforts to meet ASUU leadership is being consciously frustrated by ASUU leadership.”
