ASUU Strike: Students threaten to block all roads into Abuja

Nigerian students under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) are threatening to block all roads leading to Abuja, if the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) does not call off its strike.

The students have therefore tacitly given both the Federal Government and ASUU up till Monday, February 28, to resolve all the issues around the strike, failing which they would also match the streets of Abuja, on Monday, to protest against the strike action by ASUU.

Speaking to BBC Hausa on Tuesday, the vice president of the union, Yazid Tanko Muhammad, said the protest had become necessary in order to rescue Nigeria’s educational system from incessant strike actions.

He said: “The reason we choose to embark on a protest is that it is the only language that can be understood and it is the only way we can show the world our situations and feelings towards the strike.

“So, it is a protest which if we start, will not stop until the issues are resolved and the lecturers resume work.

“So, we will block the roads linking Abuja from Kogi, Abuja from Kaduna and Abuja from Nasarawa states.

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“That means we will block the whole Abuja on that day. We will also block the Federal Secretariat.

“That is why we are calling on Mr President to show concern and solidarity to us by not attending to work on that day.

“He should please remain at home. Since everyone is a student, either a Minister, Senator, House of Representatives member they were all students before they reached the level they are now.

“So, we are doing this because of the future of our education and the country.

“We can’t just stay at home and watch. No country in the world can go on strike for a whole month without any concrete reasons like a pandemic or similar things.”RELIABLESOURCENG.COM reports that the university lecturers recently embarked on what they termed total and comprehensive strike action to protest the inability of the Federal Government to accede to their demands, which include their welfare and improving on the fallen standard of education in the country.