NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN STUDENT (EKITI AXIS)
Press release
COLLEGE OF HEALTH TECHNOLOGY IMBROGLIO: OUR POSITIONS AND DEMAND.
It is regrettable that the actions of the management of the College of Health Technology Ijero have thrown the student community in the state into unprecedented health crises and unrest. We are particularly disturbed that these avoidable crises occasioned by the unpardonable negligence of the institution management happened at the College of Health Technology whose management, common sense would suggest they should know better.
This is a telling indictment on the quality of the senior personnel calling the shot at the institution.
The neglect of students and some of the victims who needed medical attention late yesterday night is not only inhumane, it is reckless and condemnable. Leaving student leaders with the responsibility of midnight rescue operations is a direct recipe for unimaginable crises.
We are therefore left with no alternative in the interest of our students to make the following demands:
1. That the State Governor as a matter of urgency visits the campus to address the students to return peace and calm to the students.
2. That in the case the Governor is not in town, that a high power delegation including the commissioner of health and his education counterpart must be part of the government delegation
3. That the institution examination currently ongoing should be temporarily suspended immediately to give time for students to recuperate and tension doused.
4. That government directs immediate stationing of medics and evacuation ambulances to the institution for the immediate evacuation of affected students to a competent medical facility.
5. That government takes over the medical bills of the students and their general welfare during the period of hospitalization.
6. It should be on record that the SA (Mr Ademiloye Moses) to Governor on Youth and Student only came and took pictures in the premises of the school for defense mechanism without visiting the student in the hospital at crucial moment.
7. That the government holds the agent provocateurs (the management) responsible for damages to the institution properties which was carried out by thugs and not students during the attendant crises as no legitimate students must be held responsible for damages.
8. That the incidence must be treated as a state emergency to ensure that there is no fatality.
9. That the school management must write personal letters to all the victim students to apologize to them for endangering their lives.
10. That an investigative team is set up. That the team must include student leaders and the investigation into the root cause of the incidence ascertained and anyone culpable of lack of capacity or negligence severely punished to ensure justice is served and seen to be served.
The above demands are sacrosanct for peace and we will not settle for anything less. Failure to initiate the process of meeting these demands will result in unstoppable student civil disobedience across the state.
We will not be silent when our lives are unnecessarily in danger.
Injury to one is an injury to all.
Viva Aluta!
Signed:
Comrade Olarewaju Olamide Felix- Skul-Fada
NANS JCC Chairman, Ekiti State Axis.
Comr. Aderibigbe Sikiru
General secretary
Comr Salawudeen Kamorudeen.
PRO
Cc:
NANS ZONE D
NANS National.
Nice move ☎
Hmmmm, But why state governor have not act neither nor delegate till now, Clueless of peoples in this country to any incident seems to play game of political yobo.