NANS Close Niger-Bridge Over ASUU Strike

Reports reaching us have it that NANS
shuts down Niger Bridge Asaba over the
lingering ASUU strike.
No vehicular movement for the past 3 hrs.
Is this how far NANS could have gone,
considering the fact that its politicized
leaders/executive have been speaking from
both sides of their mouth?
The students appealed to the lecturers to
call off the strike.
The National Association of Nigerian
Students (NANS) on Friday barricaded the
Asaba axis of the Niger Bridge for more
than two hours.
The action, which was jointly carried out by
some university students and their
polytechnic counterparts, was in protest
against the protracted strike by ASUU.
The aggrieved students blocked the bridge
at about 1 p.m., which resulted to a traffic
gridlock that stretched from the bridge to
Okwe junction about five kilometres to
Asaba Town.
They also lamented the recent decisions of
polytechnic lecturers under the auspices of
ASUP to also embark on a similar strike,
saying it would further cripple the
education sector and send a wrong signal
to the international community.
NANS National Public Relations Officer,
Victor Ola-Ogun, said that the students
were tired of the strike and appealed to
ASUU to call it off.
He said that the students had embarked on
the peaceful protest and taken it to Kano
and “now they are in Zone B, that is Delta
and the Anambra area of the country.’’
He said that if the lecturers refuse to call
off the strike, the association would further
move the protest to Zone C and D,
comprising the middle Belt areas and South
West of the country.
“We do not want a situation where our
ladies will become prostitutes and the men
armed robbers.
“We are always there to fight for the
lecturers’ welfare and now that the Federal
Government has decided to meet some of
their demands, they should consider for
our sake and go back to work,’’ Mr. Ola-
Ogun said.
The students, many of whom were drawn
from different parts of the country are
expected to leave Delta to their various
destinations on Saturday.
The ASUU strike has been on since July 1.

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