The Abuja chapter of the Education Rights Campaign, ERC, has challenged the managements of the University of Abuja and Nasarawa State University, Keffi, over their continued suspension of students union activities.
The Coordinator, ERC Abuja Chapter, Akande Daniel Babatunde, condemned the imposition of transition committees handpicked by the institutions' authorities on the students.
Babatunde appealed to the managements of the two universities to respect the democratic and fundamental human rights of their students to freely operate independent students unions.
His words:
“ERC rejects the false claims by both managements that this undemocratic action is meant to maintain peace and put an end to different problems erupting as a result of religious and tribal sentiments on both campuses.
”We support in totality, fully independent and democratically-run Students’ Unions that can, at all times, stand for and defend public education in all tertiary institutions in the country.
“We believe that only an independent and elected students union leadership can fight for the interest of its members, just as staff unions like the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other education workers unions always do, especially on issues relating to adequate funding of education, provision of infrastructural facilities, reduction and reversal of school fees and every other obnoxious attacks on the right to public education.”
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