NANS Calls For Truce Between Protesting Lecturers And Poly Management |The Source

By Ayodele Oni

National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS) has urged protesting lecturers of the Federal Polytechnic, (FEDPOLY), Ado Ekiti, to return to work in the interest of the students.

The lecturers, under the auspices of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic(ASUP),  on Tuesday, embarked on protests to press home payment of their entitlements.

The protest, which coincided with the second semester examination of the school,  disrupted the process.

Ekiti state Joint Campus Committee,(JCC,) of NANS, in a statement signed by the Chairman, Olanrewaju Felix, on Wednesday, noted that the students could not afford  a further threat to their future by “the avoidable crisis, despite the prolonged academic interruption caused by the pandemic.

“After several rounds of consultation with the management and ASUP, it was  resolved that ASUP should adapt an alternative means of resolving the impasse rather than using examinations, and by extension, the future of the students as basis for negotiation.

“The management should return to a round table  for a peaceful engagement with ASUP within the shortest time possible.

“While we sue for a lasting peace within the polytechnics community, NANS- JCC, Ekiti State axis, insist that the  second semester exams  must not be truncated.

“Students have wasted too long a time to be inflicted with any further delay for which we will never take lightly.

“These positions were taken in the best interest of the entire polytechnics, and  expected to be  greeted  with a sense of alternative dispute resolution tendency for peace to reign, hence, the need to protect the system from collapsing.”