The Presidential Committee on the implementation of the Needs Assessment of Nigerian Universities yesterday begged the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) not to protest over the lecturers’ strike.
The committee chairman, who is also the Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswan, made the appeal when students visited him in Abuja.
He said the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF) yesterday disbursed N30 billion earned allowance to the lecturers.
He added that the Federal Government has also released the N100 billion requested by the union for infrastructure in the universities.
Suswan, who noted that the rejection of government’s offer and insistence on strike is unfair, urged Nigerians not to politicise the industrial action.
The NANS President, Comrade Yinka Gbadebo, told the governor that the students were on a mission to ascertain who to blame for the prolonged strike.
His words: “Students, let me appeal to you that nobody should either incite you to protest against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) or protest against the Federal Government.
by: John Ofikhenua
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