The National Association of Nigerian Students has said students would embark on a mass protest should the Academic Staff Union of Universities resume its just suspended strike.
This comes following the warning by the ASUU National President, Biodun Ogunyemi that the union would resume the industrial action without notice if the government fails in meeting its part of the agreement.
But the NANS President, Sunday Asefon, who spoke in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH on Thursday said it is embarrassing and ridiculous for ASUU to threaten fresh strike after wasting the academic time of Nigerian students for nine months.
“It is a slap on us for ASUU to say they are calling off the strike conditionally. If they call it off conditionally, we will also put on hold our plan to engage the Federal Government and ASUU on mass action. But if they also resume their strike, we will also go to the streets, if that is the only language they understand, we will speak it to them,” Asefon said.
InsideOjodu reports that Ogunyemi had earlier announced the “conditionally” suspension of its nine-month-long strike after a lot of foot-dragging in negotiations by the Federal Government and the lecturers.