ASUU stirke: Groups, students protest in Benin

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.