The Council of Student’s Union Presidents (CSUP) has expressed worry over the incessant lose of its students as a result of frequent killings from bandits attacks
The Student Union President (SUG), Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna, Mr Ishaka Yahaya, spoke on behalf of all SUG presidents across tertiary institutions at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday.
Yahaya said that the Federal Government and the ASUU have nothing to lose amid the strike, adding that many students who were to be in school but resorted to doing other jobs, were being kidnapped and killed in the process.
“It’s true when they say, when two elephants meet, only the grass suffers.
“It is quite obvious here that both the Federal Government and ASUU have nothing to lose in this fight.
“This is because while the strike is ongoing, the salaries of Federal Government staff keep flowing and at the end of every strike, nothing stops the salaries of ASUU members from also flowing.
“The only most unfortunate and innocent victim here you would agree with us, are the Nigerian students, who have everything to lose.
“Even when the strike would have been called off, so many of the students would not be able to serve the nation due to the age limit.
“So many students after graduation would not be able to get government jobs due to age limit consideration,” he lamented.
Yahaya noted that the strike had increased the rate of drug abuses, prostitution and thuggery, amongst other corresponding wantonness and purposelessness by the Nigerian students who, under normal circumstances, should be in school acquiring knowledge.
“We hereby appeal to the Federal Government to meet the demands of ASUU within the shortest period of time as failure to do so would leave us with no option than to go ahead with our peaceful demonstration even amidst this security instability.
“For it’s better to die for something than to live for nothing,” he added.