The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has kicked against a court injunction which ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to suspend the ongoing industrial action.

This came after the National Industrial Court of Nigeria ordered ASUU to call off the strike it embarked on. 

While reacting to the ruling in a statement, NANS National Public Relations Officer, Giwa Temitope, condemned the judgement, saying it betrays equity.

Temitope noted that the court should have ordered the Federal Government to concede to the demands of ASUU instead of ordering them to call off the strike.

The statement read, “Our attention has been drawn to a news of a court judgment mandating the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call of its 7 month strike. As an association, we feel disturbed to read the news of the judgment because we believe that it betrays equity.

“Ordinarily, the Federal Government is not meant to have dragged ASUU to court. But, the fact that they had to drag ASUU to court is a signal that this government cannot handle crisis. And, we want to state categorically that the court cannot force members of ASUU back to lecture theatres,” he stated further.

“The only remedy to this strike action is for the Federal Government to accede to the demands of ASUU which the government willingly entered into with them and properly fund education,” the statement concluded.

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