Amid the spate of insecurity and abductions of students in the northern part of the country, the National Association of Nigerian Students/Joint Campus Committee (NANS/JCC), Ekiti axis, has vowed to partner security agencies in Ekiti State to ensure safety of students in campuses across the state.
This was the position of the student body through its new Chairman in the axis, Comrade Felix Olanrewaju, who disclosed that he had met with the Commissioner of Police, Mr Babatunde Mobayo and other security outfits like the Department of State Services(DSS) and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on the need to ensure safety of students.
Olanrewaju, who spoke at the maiden press conference in Ado-Ekiti after his emergence, lamented the rate of kidnappings and killings across campuses, saying security operatives must be at alert to avert such nefarious crime in Ekiti.
He noted that the student body expect the states’ and federal governments to focus more attention on insecurity as they are on COVID-19 because insecurity is tormenting the nation more than the pandemic.
On the situation in Nigerian campuses, the student leader said, “We have observed that it is now rampant on our campuses to have students suspended or rusticated using draconian and anti-retrogressive rules of the school Management. We have had cases of unjust expulsion because they stood their grounds. We won’t support any management that is not ready to protect the rights of our members.
“Every injustice, whether politically motivated or academically orchestrated, sexually induced or whichever form it appears, wouldn’t be tolerated”.
Olanrewaju added that his mission as NANS’ leader is to defend students’ democratic rights, encourage entrepreneurship, promote accountability and students’ welfare through the well-articulated ‘SAVERS Agenda’, upon which he was elected.