ASUU STRIKE: NANS Vows To Embark On Mass Protest If ASUU Resume Strike

The President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Sunday Asefon has vowed that the student's body will embark on a mass protest should the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) resume its just suspended strike.

Sunday Asefon, who made this known in an interview with Punch on Thursday said it is embarrassing and ridiculous for ASUU to threaten a fresh strike after wasting the academic time of Nigerian students for nine months.

“It is a slap on us for ASUU to say they are calling off the strike conditionally. If they call it off conditionally, we will also put on hold our plan to engage the Federal Government and ASUU on mass action. But if they also resume their strike, we will also go to the streets, if that is the only language they understand, we will speak it to them,” he said.

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AllNews had reported that the ASUU National President, Biodun Ogunyemi, on Wednesday in Abuja, “conditionally” suspended its nine-month-long strike after a lot of foot-dragging in negotiations by the Federal Government and the lecturers.

Ogunyemi, who said the suspension of the strike takes effect from Thursday, December 24th, 2020, had also warned that the union would resume the industrial action without notice if the government fails in meeting its part of the agreement.

This online news medium recalls that the academic union of universities has been on a protracted industrial action over the backlog of unmet agreements between its members and the federal government.