The National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS) on Monday passed a vote of no confidence in the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan for failing to elevate the educational sector to international standard.
National President of NANS, Prince Miaphen, in a statement distributed to reporters, said that the Jonathan administration had failed to address the lingering ASUU crisis and by so doing caused major setback to past efforts aimed at revamping 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 NANS president said the present administration was toeing the path of past governments that paid lip services to education and other sensitive sectors of the Nigerian economy.
He added that President Jonathan’s non-challant 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 lamented that despite the fact that Mr. Jonathan and the out gone Minister of Education – Prof. Ruqqayatu Rufa’I were both academics, they failed to proffer lasting solutions to the problems confronting 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.
That’s a stupid statement by NANS. How many the so called Excos understand the Ethics of Industrial Relations. Is that how u go about striking and making unrealistic demands. I am a student of UNN in my fourth year, if would say becos am not a student that is why I am saying this; Asuu and her leadership has failed us, they have actually decided to allow everything to fail in terms tertiary education. Is it only to make demands from federal government, how many of them are doing the right thing as regards to human capacity development, how did some of them get their qualification. I don’t just want to start pouring my vexation due to Asuu strike. When it comes to industrial actions and relations, it is not a win-loose affair, it is settled with a win-win approach. So Asuu should shift for Federal Government, for the government has tried by agreeing to 130BN to be released for Asuu. The issue of making it right once and for all cannot work in this situation. The superstructure and her sectors did not start in jonathan’s administration to deteriorate, it started for a long time and in amending the ill situation in all the sectors including education that is the concern of this my opinion; cannot be achieved once.
You are just being ignorant. What ASUU is talking about is not a fresh demand. It is a debt that have accumulated since 2009 to date. 500 billion from 2011 to 2012 for funding and infrastructural development and 87 billion as earned allowances that have accumulated since 2009. If ASUU is to demand for 400 billion promised in the MoU for funding and infrastructural development for 2013, the total demand would have been 987 billion. Govt signed these amounts in an MoU in 2009 and in 2011 too. SInce then, it is now they are bringing 100 billion in place of 900 billion and 30 billion in place of 87 billion. They have squandered these monies in the elections and now the FG is talking story.
“The superstructure and her sectors did not start in jonathan’s administration to deteriorate, it started for a long time and in amending the ill situation in all the sectors including education that is the concern of this my opinion; cannot be achieved once”. YOU ARE MYOPIC IN THIS YOUR STATEMENT. VERY MYOPIC INDEED. DID YOU VOTE HIM IN TO MAKE GOOD THE WRONG OR TO GOOD THE GOOD OR MORSE STILL, WRONG THE WRONG?