The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) President, Mr.
Yinka Gbadebo, said on September 11, 2013, Wednesday that
cumulatively, 30 months were lost in 10 years to strike action by
university lecturers.
Mr. Gbadebo revealed this while being interviewed by the
newsmen in Lagos. He said this statistics provided a platform for
questioning the use of strikes as a weapon of seeking redress.
The NANS President urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) members to embrace further dialogue and return to work in
the interest of peace and Nigerian students.
Mr. Gbadebo said that students were always at the receiving end,
losing precious time each time ASUU and their employers were in
disagreement. He said NANS was tired of tolerating the effects of
protracted and incessant strikes on the lives of the students.
“We hereby disagree with ASUU on the notion that an immediate
release of N400 billion per annum as being demanded will phase
out the myriads of problems confronting our universities.
“This is not to celebrate the government, which in an
unprecedented manner, had shown responsibility and concern by
releasing N100 billion for infrastructural development in our
universities including those that are state owned,” he said.
The NANS President said that NANS would continue to encourage
the government not to close its doors to negotiations, but inject
more funds into the entire education sector, and not just the
universities.
“It is on this basis that we want to state our traditional demand
that government must be made to commit at least 26 per cent of
our annual budget to the education sector as the minimum
recommendation by UNESCO,” Gbadebo said.
The NANS President dismissed some reports that he had been
impeached ‘due to incompetence’ and said they were from
mischief makers.
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