Education Students endorse sack of 13 vice chancellors

The Joint Campus Committee (JCC) of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has endorsed the sacking of vice chancellors of 12 federal universities and that of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), saying it was done legally.

The students disclosed this at the weekend in Abuja in a press conference addressed by Comrade Daniel Dansho and Comrade Joshua Ariyo, JCC chairmen of Plateau and Oyo zones respectively.

They said the sack of the vice chancellors was in accordance with the provisions of Universities (miscellaneous provisions) Decree no 11 of 1993.

"We believed that the sack of the vice chancellors of the 13 universities was done according to the law," they said.

"The universities act law does not have provision for elongation or renewal of tenure of vice chancellors," the students said.

"It is important to say that vice chancellors as head of the country’s higher institutions of learning should not be seen to be manipulating our laws to suit their whims and caprices," they said.

The students said "those who are deceived into blindly misjudging the actions of the Honourable Minister of Education should seek for more knowledge on public service rules and regulations. They should stop heating the polity by their apparent disregard to the laws of the land."

The JCC leaders decried the actions of Tijjani Usman whose tenure has expired last year as NANS president.

"Tijjani should stop parading himself as NANS president since his tenure had since expired in September last year. We are calling on both public and private organizations as well as individuals to note that Tijjani doesn’t represent NANS and whoever deals with him does so at his own peril," they said.

The students declared Tijjani persona non grata on their campuses for "misleading the public with distorted information capable of brewing chaos and anarchy in the country on the sack of the 13 vice chancellors."

"We are also calling on Comrade Tijjani to halt his cash and carry campaigns against the federal government and quietly organize a free and fair election for Nigerian students as soon as possible," they students said.

They announced that NANS election was scheduled for May 31, 2016.

"At the last meeting held by the Convention Planning Committee (CPC) of NANS, it was agreed that NANS election should hold between May 31, 2016 and June 4, 2016. It should be noted this dates are sacrosanct and must be upheld," the students said.

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