Gbajabiamila's intervention will not stop protest at airport, insists NANS
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The National Association of Nigerian Students has said the planned meeting of Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila with the leadership of the Universities Academic Staff Union will not stop its protest on Monday.
>NANS, in a statement on Sunday signed by its National Task Force on #EndASUUStrikeNow Chair, Ojo Raymond, noted that while he welcomed the President's intervention, his promise of grounded airports in the country would be executed.
The PUNCH reported that Gbajabiamila had, in a letter signed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Yahaya Danzarta, and addressed to the president of the ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke, expressed his concern over to the failure of negotiations between the federal government and the union, asking to meet with the union on Tuesday.
However, NANS said, "While we welcome Tuesday's dialogue, we insist that the second phase of our action to close all international airports across the country continues. In fact, someone as Gbajabiamila should also come out to address the students."
NANS also alleged that it planned to attack its members during the protest scheduled for Monday, saying it would be a violation of their rights to protest.
"And, we have also been duly informed of the government's plan to attack us with state and non-state actors. But, we want to tell the world that if a student is attacked for the cause of the protest, someone one like Gbajabiamila and his meeting will be discredited.
"Any attack on our protest would be a breach and an infringement of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act 1981, a treaty-made-law which does not permit any derogation under any form, and Section 40 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) which provided for the right to freedom of association and assembly.
"It is on this note that we call on the international community to pay close attention to our protest as we begin a new phase tomorrow (Monday)," the statement added.
"We also call on all students to find their way to all nearest barricades at airports tomorrow as we lock down the country until the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Retired) end the ASUU strike by paying our teachers and accede to all ASUU cardinal demands as they seek to revamp our education at all levels,” NANS concluded.
Please share this story:
The National Association of Nigerian Students has said the planned meeting of Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila with the leadership of the Universities Academic Staff Union will not stop its protest on Monday.
>NANS, in a statement on Sunday signed by its National Task Force on #EndASUUStrikeNow Chair, Ojo Raymond, noted that while he welcomed the President's intervention, his promise of grounded airports in the country would be executed.
The PUNCH reported that Gbajabiamila had, in a letter signed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Yahaya Danzarta, and addressed to the president of the ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke, expressed his concern over to the failure of negotiations between the federal government and the union, asking to meet with the union on Tuesday.
However, NANS said, "While we welcome Tuesday's dialogue, we insist that the second phase of our action to close all international airports across the country continues. In fact, someone as Gbajabiamila should also come out to address the students."
NANS also alleged that it planned to attack its members during the protest scheduled for Monday, saying it would be a violation of their rights to protest.
"And, we have also been duly informed of the government's plan to attack us with state and non-state actors. But, we want to tell the world that if a student is attacked for the cause of the protest, someone one like Gbajabiamila and his meeting will be discredited.
"Any attack on our protest would be a breach and an infringement of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act 1981, a treaty-made-law which does not permit any derogation under any form, and Section 40 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) which provided for the right to freedom of association and assembly.
"It is on this note that we call on the international community to pay close attention to our protest as we begin a new phase tomorrow (Monday)," the statement added.
"We also call on all students to find their way to all nearest barricades at airports tomorrow as we lock down the country until the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Retired) end the ASUU strike by paying our teachers and accede to all ASUU cardinal demands as they seek to revamp our education at all levels,” NANS concluded.
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