The Council of Student’s Union Presidents (CSUP) says that it is losing students to incessant killings from bandits attacks as a result of their prolonged stay at home due to ASUU strike.
The Student Union President (SUG), Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna, Mr Ishaka Yahaya spoke on behalf of all SUG presidents across tertiary institutions at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday.
Yahaya said that many students who were to be in school but resorted to doing other jobs were being kidnapped and killed in the process.
He appealed to the government to look into the demands of ASUU and attend to them so that they could return to school.
“It is true when they say, when two elephants meet; only the grass suffers.
“It is quite obvious here that both the Federal Government and ASUU have nothing to lose in this fight.
“This is because while the strike is ongoing, the salaries of Federal Government staff keeps flowing and at the end of every strike, nothing stops the salaries of ASUU members from also flowing.
“The only most unfortunate and innocent victim here you would agree with us are the Nigerian students, who have everything to lose.
” Even when the strike would
have been called-off, so many of the students will not be able to serve the nation due to age limit.
“So many students after graduation would not be able to get government jobs due to age limit consideration,” he said.
Yahaya said that the strike had increased the rate of drug abuses, prostitution and thuggery amongst other corresponding wantonness and purposelessness by the Nigerian students who under normal circumstances should be in school acquiring knowledge.
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