Fuel hike: NANS shuts down institutions in S’East, S’South today

PEEVED by the recent hike in the pump
price of fuel from N86.50 to N145, the National
Association of Nigeria Students, NANS, zone B,
yesterday threatened to shutdown all tertiary
institutions in the zone comprising 11 states
today (Friday) in protest against the decision of
the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal
Government to remove fuel subsidies.

NANS Zone B in a communique it issued at the
end of its meeting held on Tuesday at the Enugu
State University of Science and Technology, ESUT
main campus, decried that the hike in pump
price of fuel has brought untold hardship on
Nigerians.

The students in the communique signed the
Zone B Coordinator, Comrade Pedro Obi, the
Assistant Secretary General in the zone,
Comrade Jennifer Eze, and three others, said;

“The senate discussed extensively and
exhaustively on the state of the economy,
particularly the hardship unleashed on Nigerians
courtesy of the obnoxious policy occasioned by
the astronomical hike in the price of Premium
Motor Spirit, PMS.

“In the past few months, the Federal
Government has aided artificial scarcity of
Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), subjecting the
Nigerian masses to untold hardship from N86
and N 86.50 to N145.

“This no doubt, is an indictment on the Federal
Government, a government that has failed to
tell Nigerians the true position of things, a
government where senior officials are dishing
out counter statements in defence of the fuel
price hike, defending the indefensible.

“NANS Zone B sympathizes with Nigerians on this
unfortunate and sorry state of the Nigerian
economy. NANS Zone B condemns in strong
terms the manner in which the administration is
managing the fuel crisis and unanimously rejects
the conspiracy between the Federal Government
and Independent Marketers of Premium Motor
Spirit (PMS) in impoverishing Nigerians”.

Rejecting the fuel hike in totality and calling for a
return to status quo, the communique further
read that; “The Senate of NANS Zone B will close
down all campuses in the eleven States of the
Zone starting from Friday 27th May, 2016."