NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS{NAPS National) NEWS Update>>> POLY STUDENTS GIVE GOVT ONE WEEK ULTIMATETUM OVER ASUP STRIKE. APPARENTLY reacting to Monday’s report that striking polytechnic lecturers said they would not buckle until their demands are met by government, the National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) has issued a one-week ultimatum for the Federal Government and their striking teachers to come to a compromise for academic activities to resume or face a demonstration that would take them to the Federal Capital Territory. In a fresh statement issued in Benin City on Monday by the President NAPS, Ogbonnaya Sunday and made available to journalists, the students said the Federal Government’s response to the issues have been “epileptic”. They said the striking workers should also shift their grounds. “The leadership of NAPS is calling on all students of polytechnics and our sister-associat ions to get set as we will embark on a national protest on July 8 in Abuja on the on-going ASUP strike in which the Federal Government’s response has been epileptic with less concern on the plight of students. I wish to appeal to the Federal Government to take seriously the agitation of ASUP and SSANIP so that the polytechnic students can go back to school for proper academic activities. “We find it difficult and disturbing that the Federal Government can be comfortable and still go about its normal business when an important sector like polytechnic education has been on standstill for nearly two months. While we appeal to the striking unions to be meek in their demand because of the students, we fervently beg the government to be serious with the future of the polytechnic students as this is the only way we they can have germane trust in the President’s transformation agenda. “We want to remind the two elephants (striking union and government) that we will not continue to remain the ground, as those who make peaceful changes impossible make violent changes inevitable. To this end, we will be forced to go into the streets of Abuja a week from now to protest our idleness, which has been forced on us by those meant to build and mould us for the betterment and benefit of this country.” Signed COM SUNDAY OGBONAYAN NAPS PRESIDENT ELECT.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 19:50:09 +0000
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