Falana Chides Students Association, NANS For Becoming Mouthpiece of Government

...Urge Them To Collaborate With Trade Unions To Defend Human Rights

Legal luminary and human right lawyer, Mr Falana SAN, has chided the various students associations and the National Association of Nigerian Students for what he described as them becoming the mouthpiece of the Nigerian Government.

The legal icon made this disclosure through a statement signed by Tayo Soyemi of Falana and Falana Chambers on Thursday,. The statement reads in parts, “Notwithstanding the opportunism of a few student leaders, NANS should be recognised and repositioned to defend Nigerian students. To achieve the objective, the ban on all student unions should be lifted without any further delay".

The Human Rights lawyer urged student leaders and the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to collaborate with trade unions in the country to defend the human rights of Nigerians, including students’ right to education.

Mr.Falana had earlier on Wednesday while presenting a paper at the maiden edition of "The Yinka Odumakin Inter-faculty Debate and Public Lecture held by the Student Union of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State urged the student leaders to realise that “NANS was not set up to defend Governments but Nigerian students”.

He then charged the student leaders to henceforth promote and defend the interests of Nigerian students both at home and abroad.

He further called on NANS to take up the case of the two students who lost their lives during a stampede which occurred in the Nasarawa State University during the distribution of 7kg bags of rice.

He say, “Instead of throwing food at people like animals in a zoo the federal and state governments should establish a social security system to take care of vulnerable and indigent citizens. NANS should lead the campaign against the abduction of students and payment of ransom running to several billions of Naira.”

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