University students protesting the ASUU strike stopped the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway under the auspices of the South-West zone of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS).
On Tuesday, September 13, the students gathered at the Sagamu interchange as early as 9am.
They stopped the highway on both sides, stopping traffic from entering and leaving Lagos.
During the protest, many travelers were stuck, and business operations were halted.
Akinteye Babatunde, vice president of NANS for external affairs, Giwa Yisa Temitope, Adegboye Emmanuel Olatunji, zone D coordinator, Ekundina Elvis, chairman of the Ondo JCC, Omotosho Surprise, chairman of the Lagos JCC, Olusesi Tolulope Samson, chairman of the Ogun JCC, Kehinde Damilola Simeon, and chairman of the Oyo JCC,
The walkout, now in its seventh month, was called upon to stop right away by the students.
To allow the teachers on strike to return to class, they pleaded with the Nigerian government to grant their requests.
“We have started a major action today on the ASUU Strike. There is no point arguing about who is at fault or what should be done. It is very clear that the rulers underfund education and the Buhari government is failing in its promises to revamp education,” says a statement from the students’ movement signed by PRO Giwa Yisa and Zone D Coordinator Adegboye Emmanuel Olatunji.
“As it is today, no higher institution in Nigeria is world class. Yet, our so-called public servants travel all over the world spending billions to send their kids abroad for studies.
“As major stakeholders in the educational sector, we are the ones who can save ourselves. We have monitored the yearnings of students from campus to campus through their social media platforms and also in their public writings.
“Students all over Nigeria stand with ASUU. Our lecturers suffer the same hardships and mal-developments we suffer.
“The staff houses are as bad as the students’ Hostels.
“In South Africa, a Professor’s Laboratory is far more equipped than that of any university in Nigeria.
“History has been killed and undermined so we the youths do not know where we are coming from not to talk of knowing where we are headed. But we will not lament anymore.
“The new leadership in NANS is here to work with students to achieve our set aims and objectives. We believe that the students’ movement has its space in history. It is a task for which we vow to fulfill. We will never let Nigerian students down!
“It is on this note that we declare Forth: We Stand with ASUU. We Call on ASUU leadership for a meeting as soon as possible to discuss solidarity actions, and plan for the next phase of the struggles.
“We pass a vote of No Confidence on both the Ministers of Labour and Education. We call for the proper funding of the educational sector as against what has been attainable in the past seven years.
“We call on the Buhari government to pay all outstanding arrears and salaries of the lecturers. The policy of “No Work No Pay” is a Fascist one; it’s therefore condemnable and non-acceptable to all the millions of students in Nigeria.
“We will, by this statement, not beg again. We will be mobilizing all students to Shut Down the country (without excluding the Presidential villa). No Education, no movement.”
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