ASUU Strike: OAU and UNN Students Took To The Highway To Protest ASUU Strike

Despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s plead for ASUU to end their strike and all parties involved to come to the table, the strike still continues. Thus prompting the frustrated students to take to the Highway in protest against the strike

Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, and their counterparts at University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, yesterday took to the highways, stopping vehicular movements in protest against the protracted strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

While the OAU students barricaded the Ife-Ibadan expressway, students of the University of Nigeria, shutdown the Nsukka-Opi-Enugu.

Consequently, travellers remained stranded as the blockade caused traffic snarls.

The OAU students, who converged on their campus gate very early yesterday morning, marched down to the major highway, which connects commuters travelling from Ife to Ibadan and vice versa.

The students, who converged under the aegis of Fund Education Coalition, vowed to continue the protests till their demand of addressing issues raised by ASUU and reopening universities was met by the Federal Government.

The students held placards bearing inscriptions such “Fund Education Now”, “Education is not a Scam” among others, as they chanted “End ASUU Strike.”

They equally proceeded to a major roundabout, the popular OUI roundabout at Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu.

The students were joined by some concerned members of the public.

UNN students

In Enugu, students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, and officials of NANS, shutdown Nsukka-Opi-Enugu Road demanding immediate end to the strike embarked upon by ASUU.

The visibly angry students, who turned out in their hundreds, accused the Federal Government and ASUU of toying with their future, threatening that they would cripple economic and political activities nationwide, if the strike was not called off.

The students, who said they were tired of staying idle at home, urged politicians to inject the huge sums of money used in purchasing nomination forms into resolving the impasse between ASUU and Federal Government.

They said that the national chairman of NANS, Sunday Asefon, had given a directive, which authorised the student body to block all major South-East roads from next week.

Speaking during the protest, which took off from UNN main gate, National Director of Contact and Mobilisation, NANS, Ben Okana, said: “Our message is very clear. Let the Federal Government reach an agreement with ASUU.

‘’We are going to shutdown the entire nation if the ASUU strike is not called off. Our next target is Aso Rock. We will make sure Aso Rock is crippled so that the President himself will feel the impact of what we are doing on the streets,” he said.

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