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According to a report by Nigeria's Newspaper, DailyTrust, Nigerian students were said to soon
become Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in their own country as a result of
the unending strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
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The African Students Education Support Initiative (ASESI) said this in Abuja on Monday that some of the students have now taken to various criminal
activities as a result of the strike, calling on the government and ASUU to
urgently resolve all the issues at stake in the interest of the Nigerian
students.
The Executive Director of
ASESI, Mr Chinonso Obasi, in a statement, decried the prolonged industrial
action by ASUU.
Obasi, the immediate past
President of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) said “reports
have revealed that Nigerian students have now resulted in arm robbery,
commercial sex activities, drug addiction and other inimical social vices
because of the prolonged ASUU strike.
“It must be equally emphasised that the
nonchalant attitude of the Nigerian Government towards education sector is a
direct means of denying Nigerian students access to having good life and as
well as indirect means of pushing them into anti-social activities and other
forms of crime.
“The Nigerian Government as a
matter of urgency should speedily meet the demands of the impoverished
lecturers of the tertiary institutions in Nigeria to enable students return to
school as we are set to declare Nigerian students as internally displaced
persons(IDP) any moment from now should the Federal Government fail to address
the ASUU issue,” Obasi said.
He said the level of
development in any nation coul be best assessed by the inherent educational
standard in terms of stability and growth, noting that it has become worrisome
that Nigeria, being the supposed giant of Africa, has continually not shown
genuine concerns and enthusiasms on the nation’s education sector.
Such nonchalant attitude of
government, he said, was posing serious danger to the future of the country and
her future leaders.
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