Students under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Tuesday, blocked the Lagos–Ibadan expressway in protest of the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Led by it’s Ogun state chairman, Simeon Kehinde Damilola, the students blocked both sides of the highway, causing total gridlock, preventing traffic flow on the inward and outward bound Lagos.
Simeon described the President Muhammadu Buhari – led administration as a “failed government”, declaring their support for ASUU, saying that tertiary institutions in the country is on death roll from the continued strike.
“We have started a major action today on ASUU Strike. There is no point arguing about who is at fault or what is to be done. It is very clear that the rulers underfund education and the Buhari government is failing in its promises to revamp education.
“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. Our lecturers suffer the same hardships and mal-developments we suffer”, Simeon said.
He vowed that the students will continue their protest across major highways in the Southwest until the federal government yield to the demands of the striking lecturers.
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