ASUU PERSONALLY:Cross Battle Between ASUU & FG,Where Do NANS Support?

I came across of think article some days ago but due to some set backs,I wasn't able to publish it till now...please does it mean am lazy?...lolz.."

A lot of things has took place since Academic Staff Union Universities (ASUU)embarked on strike,things that could make one confused of which side to support;the Federal Government(FG)or the ASUU.
National Association Of Nigerian Students(NANS)is now what people focused on to help solve and bring an end to the so long over boring strike,but the problem is that NANS are not openly fighting on the issue,i.e not ready to declare which side it oppose and and the side it support...
Nigeria's Politics vs Corruptions...lol...

The following article explains more on the issue :

A lot had been said by many
Nigerians about the refusal of Yinka
Gbadebo, the President of the
National Association of Nigerian
Students (NANS) to declare his open
support for the national leadership
of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) in relation to the
ongoing industrial action by same
which has consequentially paralyzed
academic activities in all public
universities (both state and federal)
across the nation since June, 2013.
The truth about the matter is as
below:

When the ongoing ASUU strike
clocked 17 days old, the Yinka
Gbadebo-led National Association of
Nigerian Students (NANS) wrote two
separate letters to the Chairman of
Federal Government's NEEDs,
Governor Gabriel Suswan of Benue
State and Dr. Issa Fagge, President,
Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) respectively; demanding
information from them on why
Nigerian Students had to be at the
receiving end, as they have been
confined to perpetual home-stay;
and in furtherance, asking for the
steps being taken to get their
disagreement resolved.

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A week later, Governor Suswan
replied Yinka Gbadebo's letter. Two
weeks after, Governor Suswan
invited Yinka Gbadebo to Markudi,
the capital city of Benue State and
briefed him exclusively on the
matter.
Country people, let me inform you
authoritatively that apart from the
fact that ASUU President has not
deemed it fit to respond to the letter
addressed to him by Yinka Gbadebo
till date; it should be noted that
neither the leadership nor the body
of ASUU consulted NANS before
starting-off the ongoing strike.
However, even when it is not the
right of NANS to be consulted by
ASUU before taking decisions or
embarking on its cause(s), we feel it
would have been a privilege and
more honourable to partner with the
Students leadership (NANS) in the
process of executing its demands
especially on the one of the present
day.

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The meeting with Governor Suswan
afforded Yinka Gbadebo and his
team the opportunity to be
exclusively briefed and also get a
copy of the 2009 agreement signed
by ASUU and FG. As I write, I have
equally read the signed agreement.
For your necessary information, the
agreement is hereby divided into
two:
1. Primary Demand
2. Secondary Demand
The primary demand is the Earned
Allowance being demanded by ASUU
for her members.
The secondary demand are those
which encapsulate: conducive
environment for teaching and
learning, total implementation of
UNESCO recommendation on
education, etc.
After this briefing by Governor
Suswan, Yinka Gbadebo, despite not
being consulted nor briefed by
ASUU, declares his support for same
ASUU with respect to the secondary
demands but maintained anonymity
on the primary demands until he's
being fully briefed by the President
of ASUU.
Meanwhile, the analyses done by
Governor Suswan on the primary
demand of ASUU goes as thus:
1. That the N87billion being
demanded by ASUU was not part of
the 2009 agreement,
2. That the N87billion was inserted
into the agreement by ASUU on
february this year,
3. That the 2013 budget had already
been sent to national assembly
before the primary demand was
made by ASUU,
4. That Federal Government has
appealed to ASUU to wait for her
primary demand to be incorporated
into the 2014 budget,
5. That Federal Government, through
the support of some corporate
organizations, has offered to pay
ASUU N30billion while the rest of the
demand will be incorporated into
the 2014 appropriation,

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6. That FG has discovered that not
all Lecturers are entitled to the
earned allowance being demanded
by ASUU,
7. That FG has told ASUU members
to go for verification exercise in
order to know the actual number of
those entitled to the earned
allowance,
8. That ASUU has refused to go for
verification, insisting that all
Lecturers, irrespective of the manner
with which they were employed must
be paid.
On the secondary demands, the
analyses of governor Gabriel Suswan
posited:
That the FG, through the support of
some corporate organizations, has
began the disbursement of the sum
of N100billion to public universities
nationwide including state owned
ones.
However, knowing-fully well that
Governor Suswan is a politician, that
could be dashing out humbug to
wheedle, coax and rigmarole the
common-sense of Nigerian Students,
hence, Yinka Gbadebo wrote to Dr.
fagge, the President of ASUU in
order to know his own side of the
story.

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Dear compatriots, let me state
authoritatively that as I write, the
letter Yinka Gbadebo wrote to Dr.
Fagge has not been replied.
Arising from the above, i wish to ask
these following questions:
1. Why are most Nigerian Students
blaming Yinka Gbadebo for not
supporting ASUU without hearing
his side of the story?
2.Was Yinka Gbadebo the cause of
ASUU strike?
3. Finally, when will Nigerians start
to face reality and stop joining
bandwagons?
Let me also use this medium to
chastise Staff Unions in our tertiary
institutions for being hypocritical to
the plight, yearning and aspirations
of Nigerian Students. A public affairs
commentator, Seun Aladesuru, in
his article titled: ASUU STRIKE and
"NANS" UNBEKNOWNST COURSE
SOLIDARITY made the underneath
affirmation:
" During the lasted academic staff
union of polytechnic (ASUP) and the
ongoing ASUU strike respectively, its
disheartening and lugubrious to see
Nigerian Students taking to the
street protesting in favour of the
"Pressure Groups" who are only
Self-Centred (ASUP, ASUU) against
the Got.
Really,the protest would be Student
favoured in one-side but I strongly
know that the ongoing strike is 99%
Lecturers sided.
Do you want to tell me that the
87billion the Union is demanding for
is to Subsidize the School Fee of
Nigerian Students? Is the 87 billion
MOSTLY to cater for different
Allowances of the Lecturers?
Bitter but Harsh Truth.!
The Ongoing ASUU strike is no-
lecturer fight but UNION's struggle
in totality that is the simple reason
why No lecturer suffers the action at
the end of the industrial dispute.
If that be, why hasn't it be possible
for this Pressure group to dim it fit
to support any reasonable or
tenable struggle of Nigerian
Students in our campuses?
If Nigerian Students think as I do,
they will flash back and reason with
these questions:
1) SCHOOL FEE INCREMENT: When
students protest against this, have
you ever heard/seen ASUP, ASUU
e.t.c showing support.?
2) INCREMENT IN ACCOMMODATION
FEE: What has been the say of the
Staff'' union about this.?
3) DELAY IN RESULT: Are they
concerned.?
4) DELAY IN FINAL YEAR RESULT: Are
they ever there to echo Your voice.?
5) HANDOUT FEE: Are they no the
masquerade behind it.?

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6)PROSCRIPTION OF STUDENTs'
BODY IN SCHOOLS: Is that not for
their own betterment.?
7. Expulsion and rustication of our
comrades, are they not the one
recommending that?
8. Molesting of our female students
at will: are they not involved?
9. Cruel, barbaric and irresponsible
shooting of Nigerian Students by the
men of the Nigeria Police during
protest: what has been their take?
None!
Supporting the Union might be to
ensure the resumption of school &
not mainly to see that the
agreement is honoured because,
with the aforementioned I doubt it
the Union really deserves it. Nigerian
Students should wise up!", He
opined.
I urge every Nigerians to prevail on
ASUU National Leaders, to, for the
sake of the future leaders of our
nation's tomorrow; whose destinies
are being ruined and breakthrough
delayed by the ongoing strike, to
please respond to the letter written
to the ASUU National leadership by
NANS in order to know the decision
and actions to be taken.
NANS of today is different from the
former erratic NANS(s) of
questionable history. It should be
noted that for any struggle or
radical action to be embarked upon
by our present day leadership,
especially on issues of national
importance like the one being
discussed here, such must be
logically pursed; it must be
conceptually and popularly
executed.
Conventionally,i wish to opine
without any form of bias that the FG
seemed to be right considering the
information available to us, while
ASUU seemed to be hiding so much
skeletons subject to critical
explanation. This notion will
continue but may turn contrary, only
when Dr. Fagge responds to the
letter written to him by Yinka
Gbadebo for the purpose of clarity,
supremacy of truth, equity and
justice on the ongoing confusion.
Finally, I wish to inform ASUU that
using the media to pronounce Yinka
Gbadebo impeached is not the
solution to get the ongoing strike
suspended because NANS did not
cause the strike and the sponsorship
of renegades and reactionaries to
discredit Yinka Gbadebo in the
media by obliterating him of his
excellent performance is not the
solution also; neither will it
demoralize the unflinching support
of the over 15 million Nigerian
students population for their ever
formidable president of NANS.
We endear Prof. Fagge to purge
himself of sentiments and unrealistic
pursuit of unbridled vendetta against
Yinka Gbadebo.
Meanwhile, while saluting the
courage, doggedness and
intellectual vibrancy of Dr. Issa Fagge
and his team; i wish to emphasize
that it is high time ASUU and NANS
worked together considering the
plight of the innocent Nigerian
Students who have been confined to
their various houses as a result of
this ongoing tussle.
To start with, NANS hereby demand
that it should be briefed by ASUU on
her primary demand immediately!
Was Governor Gabriel Suswan lying
in his brief to NANS? Or was he
correct?
Over to ASUU!!!

By: Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye,
media/editorial consultant to Yinka
Gbadebo writes from Magodo,
Lagos.
Maxwell_adeleye@ yahoo.co

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