Brave Dickson
The Rivers State branch of the Civil Liberty Organisation has thrown its weight behind the planned protest by the National Association of Nigerian Students to ground all airports in the country over the lingering ASUU strike.
While announcing the planned protest in Ondo State, the Chairman, NANS National Task Force on ‘End ASUU Strike Now,’ Ojo Olumide, said students are already tired of pleading with both the striking lecturers and the federal government to end the strike.
University lecturers under the banner of the Academic Staff Union of Universities had since February this year withdrawn their academic services over what they described as insensitive on the part of the FG to honour agreement the central government had entered into with them.
While the students had been staging protest in several states of the country, this time, they said they will storm all the airports in the country and ground aviation activities beginning from Monday.
Drumming support for the planned action of the students, the state Chairman of CLO, Clifford Solomon told our correspondent that the students have the right to ground the nation’s airports.
“The body language of the federal government has shown that it is not ready to do the needful in order to end the lingering ASUU strike.
“The lecturers on their part, are also not willing to compromise and return to work.
“And when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers and in this case, the students are the ones suffering.
“These students have been at home for over six months because of the lingering ASUU strike which shows how clueless Nigerian leaders are when it comes to the value of education in society.
“We, the CLO in Rivers State are in support of the students’ planned protest to shut the activities of the nation’s airports,” he said.
However, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has written to the leadership of ASUU, calling for a meeting in a view to find lasting solution to the lingering strike.
