Strike: NANS presidential aspirant, Bello Ishaq urges FG, ASUU to find middle ground

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•       Says students should not be the sacrificial lamb


A leading presidential aspirant of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Bello Ishaq has urged the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to find a middle ground urgently and avoid making students the sacrificial lamb in their disagreement.


Ishaq made this statement following the announcement of a one-month warning strike by ASUU which claimed the FG has not fulfilled some of their promises to the Union.


“This is another sad period for the Nigerian students as ASUU has announced a one-month warning strike over what they called failure of the FG to fulfill its promises made to the Union.


“Whatever the disagreement is between the ASUU and the FG, the student demography should not be the sacrificial lamb. This is even as we are just recovering from the effects of the recent months-long strike by ASUU and the COVID-19 lockdown that led our various schools to shut down,” the statement read.


“I hereby urge both parties to go back to the roundtable and find a middle ground immediately. The Nigerian society is not friendly already. School is part of what students use to comfort themselves as they get to interact, rub minds with colleagues. We need to prevent further frustration and aggression that may stem out of this development of strike. 


“What the FG and the ASUU need is sincere engagement. As a presidential aspirant of NANS, part of my agenda is to find a way the student association can help both parties deepen communication and engagements so that they may bound together and always understand themselves better. It is good to jaw-jaw rather than war-war. Aluta Continua! Of the Greatest Nigerian Students!”

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