Students of Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, Enugu, who recently staged a violent protest against the state government and the administration of former Vice Chancellor, Professor Ikechukwu Chidobem over incessant strike actions by the lecturers have apologised to Governor Sullivan Chime and his government.
The students tendered the apology in a statement by Simon Nnamani and Barth Nwankwo, President and Secretary of ESUT Student Union Government, SUG, respectively, in which they explained that the students embarked on the protest because they were pushed to the wall.
They lamented that ESUT had in recent past experienced series of unwarranted strikes, pandemonium and untold abortion of academic activities, leading to non-mobilization of ESUT graduates for national services, owing to the protracted conflicts between the ESUT chapters of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Non Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASUU, and the administration of the then Vice Chancellor, Professor Chidobem.
According to the students, they had made several attempts and appeals to the various parties to resolve the problem through dialogue and constructive consultation with other stakeholders in the state “but due to non-compliance of the management to the agreed terms, the situation worsened and endangered the welfare of the students.”
“Nigerian students who have always been the grass when two elephant (ASUU and VC) fight and whose future are under serious jeopardy, were compelled to go on a peaceful protest against the structure of injustice,” they stated.
Source: Vanguard News
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