ABEOKUTA– Students under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has appealed to the Non-academic Staff Union of University (NASU) to seek alternative means to seek their right rather than embark on industrial action.
NANS in a statement jointly signed by, Comr. Kehinde Damilola Simeon, Chairman, NANS Ogun JCC, Comr. Ekundina Segun Elvis, Deputy Senate President, NANS National and Comr. Olatunji Adegboye, Coordinator, NANS Southwest Zone D decry the directives coming shortly after the 8 months long ASUU strike was suspended as inimical.
According to the statement which was also signed by Comr. Ogunrombi Gbemileke, NAOSS Global President and Comr. Okereafor Opeyemi Bestman, National President, PSM NIG, the students said the uncompassionate directive will only subject the students to further psychological trauma, time wastage and perplexity.
“Just as University students all over the country are rejoicing to return to campus after months of academic calendar stagnation, we find it appalling that NASU is calling for another strike action.
“If carried out, this course of action will be inimical to the best service delivery practice they swore to provide, detrimental to our collective future and contradicts everything that NASU stands for.
“We believe that most of NASU members are also parents, we therefore implore the union to seek for alternative medium in pursuing their rights and allow common sense to prevail as the students should not be subjected to further distress.
“While we recognize their right to seek for redress, we still maintain that choosing to boycott work at this critical period is not only insensitive but also callous.
“The union should allow work to continue while channeling their grievances through other means so that normalcy and stability can be restored in the university.
“If heeded, this singular action will be seen as solidarizing with the students and make us sympathetic to NASU’s cause.
“However, embarking on actions contrary to the above will consequently pitch the students against the school’s Non-academic staff.
“This will put us under constraint to engage in direct face off with the culprits.
“We must affirm again, that this struggle to emancipate our future from being used as collateral damage isn’t about FUNAABITES alone but has become that of all Ogun State students and by extension that of the South West.
“We hereby seriously warn the few bad eggs in NASU to desist from any attempt truncate campus activities as we expect the FUNAAB management to announce resumption plans imminently.
“We are willing, able and ready to mobilise massively to stampede this politically motivated action.
“At no point in time shall we sit and watch our collective future being used to settle scores.
“This despiteful venture shall be vehemently resisted now and in the future”, the statement reads
