Economic activities were grounded in Benin City Tuesday for over one hour, when
coalition of civil society organizations and students, protested against the
attitude of the Federal Government in the current strike action embarked upon
by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The
placard-carrying groups, including Concerned Nigerian Students, Coalition of
Edo Youths Organisation, Edo Youth Congress, Edo State Students, Comrade Across
the Nation, South-South Youth League and Edo Youth for Good Government,
described the Federal Government’s seeming refusal to meet the demands of ASUU
as wicked, just as they backed ASUU for sticking to their guns in their demand.
The
protesters who brandished placards, some of which read, “We are Nigerian
Undergraduates Unemployed,” “Education is a Right,” “Federal Government Answer
ASUU,” said the present impasse in FG/ASUU talk breakdown should be blamed on
the former.
Former
ASUU chairman, University of Benin chapter, Dr Kashetu Ilavbare, who was
sighted around the protesters, said the presence of some of the ASUU members
was to guide the protesters, so that they do not take the laws into their hands
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