ASUU Strike: NANS passes vote of no confidence on Jonathan

The student leader says he and his
colleagues could no longer keep quiet
while officials toy with their future.
The National President, National
Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS)
said Monday Nigerian students have lost
confidence in the administration of
President Jonathan in revamping the
educational sector to international
standard.
Prince Miaphen said in a statement
distributed to journalists that the
Jonathan administration had failed to
address the lingering ASUU crisis and by
so doing thwarting past efforts to rev up
the standard of education in the country.
“It worrisome and infuriating that the
administration of Goodluck Jonathan has
failed to implement the 2009 agreement
reached with ASUU. This as a result has
caused a great setback in the pursuit of
education by Nigerian students.”
The NAN president said the Jonathan
administration was toeing the path of his
predecessors who he said paid lip
services to education and other sensitive
sectors of the Nigerian economy.
Mr. Miaphen said Mr. Jonathan’s attitude
had resulted in the current rot in the
academic sector.
“NANS therefore pass a vote of no
confidence on the administration of
President Goodluck Jonathan for the poor
pursuit of qualitative education among
students in Nigeria,”
The student leader regretted that
President Jonathan and the outgone
minister of education, both of whom were
teachers, failed to profer lasting solutions
to the problems bedevilling the
educational system.
The statement said the situation in the
education sub-sector has resulted in
Nigerian higher institutions producing
unemployable graduates.
“As a result of persistence strike each
academic calendar, our universities and
other high institutions churns out half-
baked graduates every year due to
incessant strike action, we cannot suffer
in silence while individuals responsible for
our travails send their own children to
choice universities school abroad,” he
said.