The National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS), Ebonyi State chapter has staged a peaceful protest to demand an immediate stoppage of the ongoing one-month warning strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
NANS Ebonyi State chapter made up of students drawn from all tertiary institutions in the state barricaded the Presco Campus section of the ever busy Abakaliki-Enugu road demanding immediate end to incessant strikes.
The students led by the Acting Deputy Coordinator of Zone F, Comrade Ewa Chukwumaijem and the Joint Campus Committee (JJC) Chairman elect in the state, Comrade Ituma Kelvin, carried placards with inscriptions such as “age is irreversible, House rents are non-refundable, Stop disrupting our life plans FG stop delaying our career, Stop toying with our future and that of our dear nation”, we can’t continue to be bait for anybody” among others.
Addressing newsmen, Acting Deputy Coordinator of Zone F, Comrade Ewa Chukwumaijem said the protest was to register their displeasure over the incessant ASUU strikes in the nation’s universities.
He noted that the strikes had always been about the selfish interests of ASUU and never about the interest of the students. He called on the federal government and the ASUU to take immediate actions towards resolving the strike for the interest of the students
