The president of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) identified as Sunday Asefon has openly declared that they don’t mind being shot for them to be able to go back to school.
This is coming amidst the ongoing strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the federal government’s inability to meet the educational union demand.
According to Asefon, its members would disrupt the primary election of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and People Democratic Party (PDP) because the leaders who are supposed to help them in sorting the issue at hand are only focused on the 2023 general elections.
In his words, he said;
“We are talking about education, we are talking about life, our life is no longer being discussed by the leaders, these leaders that we elected; but rather, their focus now is about the election. This election that we are talking about is because of their parochial and selfish interest.
“We are battle-ready. They will ask their policemen to shoot us, if we die, the generation coming will know that we died while fighting for them. They would also know that they shot us because they are preparing for an election. But we need to take action.”
