ASUU strike: We are battle ready, police should be ready to shoot us – NANS

The President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Sunday Asefon has declared that the student body is ready to receive bullets if it would end the lingering strike embarked by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,.

Asefon made the comment while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.

According to him, the Buhari-led government appears not to be interested in ending the strike as focus shifts to elections in 2023.

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His words, “We are talking about education, we are talking about life,” he said.

“Our life is no longer being discussed by the leaders, these leaders that we elected; but rather, their focus now is about election. This election that we are talking about is because of their parochial and selfish interest.

“We are battle ready, the highest they can do is to shoot us,” he said. “If they shoot, they will ask their police to shoot us, if we die, the generation coming will know we died because of fighting for them. They would also know that they shot us because they are preparing for election. But we need to take action”

“If you have an opportunity to meet the ASUU and federal government, federal government will tell you they inherited the problem from PDP, the ASUU will tell you this negotiation has been on since when Jonathan was there but what we believe as students is that government is continuous; they should be able to fine tune and find a solution to this matter,” he said.

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“We should not be at the receiving end every time and as such, they should stop using us to play politics.”

ASUU embarked on a four-week warning strike on February 14.