The leadership of the National
Association of Nigerian Students, Joint Campus Committee (NANS/JCC), Ogunstate
chapter is outraged at the high amount of foreign trips so far embarked upon by
President Muhammad Buhari in his first six months in office.
The students’
body disclosed that as at the last count, the trips has risen to 14.
In a
release on
Tuesday December 1 by
NANS/JCC, which was signed by the state chairman, Comrade Dotun Opaleye, copy
which was made available to our correspondent in Abeokuta, the student body revealed
that from their findings, each trip cost nothing less than five hundred
thousand dollars on the average.
Zamora, as
fondly called, opined that the huge amount can be better invested in the
economy.
He noted
that it would have been so helpful to the state governors, who are lamenting
that they cannot afford to pay the N18,000 minimum wage.
According
to the statement, “May we remind the president that he
doubles as the Petroleum minister and cannot afford to be globetrotting, when
the entire nation has been brought to her heels due to this petrol scarcity.
“To speak
with utmost candour, Nigerian students are gradually getting disillusioned with
the change the All Progressives Congress promised during the electioneering
process.
“A change
impregnated with lack of youth participation, incessant fuel scarcity, mindless
killings by insurgents in the northeast and diminishing naira value, crashing
of the stock exchange and delay in payment of workers salary.
“It
required the opposition party to remind the APC their campaign promise to pay
the unemployed and the socially incapacitated a token of N5, 000.
“In light of the aforementioned, NANS Joint
campus committee, Ogun state, hereby declares President Muhammadu Buhari and
his cabinet persona non grata on all campuses in Ogun state, until the earlier
raised issues are addressed,” the
statement concluded.
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