The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS has made move to sue the Education Minister, a few hours after the Minister said students should sue the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, whose reign has been caused by numerous ASUU Strikes, Thursday, advised students to sue ASUU for “wasting their time“, The Nation reports.
The Minister said this at the 47th Session of the State House Ministerial Briefing organized by the Presidential Communications Team at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
Adamu also revealed that ASUU is demanding the salaries for the 6months they have been on strike, and FG will not concede to their demands.
Adamu while opining that it’s not in the place of the Federal Government to compensate students for the time they have lost, said students should “take ASUU to court”.
The Punch reports, responding, the NANS controversial President, Sunday Ashefon, said they will instead sue the Minister for his inability to end the ASUU strike.
According to him, it makes no sense for students to sue employees protesting for bad working conditions.
In his words: “Our attention has been drawn to a statement credited to the Minister of Education Malam Adamu Adamu where he suggested that Nigerian students affected by ASUU strike must sue ASUU for liabilities suffered as a result of the strike.
“Perhaps the only thing Malam Adamu Adamu has gotten right since he became a Minister is the fact that Nigerian students needed to be compensated for their wasted time, opportunities and resources. However, the Minister is clever by half by suggesting ASUU should be held liable for the liabilities. ASUU is neither the proprietor of our tertiary institutions nor the beneficiary of the exorbitant fees we pay across our tertiary institutions in Nigeria. It is an abuse of intellect to suggest that students should sue employees for protesting bad working conditions and not the employer who is the proprietor of our schools and the beneficiary of the exorbitant school fees we pay.
“Since Nigerian students do not think like the Minister, since we can separate what is right from wrong, we will yield the advise of the Minister by exploring legal windows for compensation of our students for numerous liabilities suffered as a result of the incessant and prolonged ASUU strike. While our losses in terms of lost opportunities as a result of time wasted might not be quantifiable, our losses as regards private hostel accommodations payments, research work losses, foreign admission losses, and extra year resulting to miss of NYSC service opportunities are liabilities that can be quantified and liabilities accounted.
“We have therefore decided to take the advise of the Minister and seek legal redress for the liabilities suffered. We will therefore consult with our legal advisers to see what options are available for us to explore legally against the Federal Government, Minister of Education”.
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The student body, however, called on ASUU to place the interest of the students above other interests.
“We also call on ASUU to be considerate and put students’ interests into their consideration. ASUU trying to hold the nation into ransom is unpatriotic and self-serving.
“We, therefore, advise state government whose tertiary institutions are on strike should take every reasonable measure to ensure resumption of academic activities as the current strike should never have affected state universities. We will support state government in any measure they deem fit to compel striking state university lecturers to resume work”.
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