BEING A JOINT PRESS TEXT BETWEEN THE NATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF LAGOS STATE STUDENTS (NULASS) AND THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN STUDENTS (NANS), JOINT CAMPUS COMMITTEE LAGOS STATE AXIS DELIVERED ON MONDAY 4TH DECEMBER, 2017.

NOTICE OF SEVEN (7) WORKING DAYS ULTIMATUM TO PAY OUR SCHOLARSHIP AND BURSARY FOR 2016/2017 ACADEMIC SESSION BEFORE WE PROCEED ON A COORDINATED PROTEST ACROSS THE STATE

Our Bursary Our Right Coalition is a conglomeration of National Union of Lagos State Students (NULASS) and National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Lagos axis. Our objective is to see that the Lagos state government release the payment of the 2016-2017 Lagos State Bursary and scholarship dues for Lagosian schooling all over the federation.
Your excellency, we are compelled to notify you of our resolution to hit the streets of Lagos and cause peaceful civil disobedience in protest of non-payment of our bursary and scholarship dues for all Lagos state indigenes schooling across the federation in various higher institutions.
Our resolve to protest after the 7days ultimatum is not unconnected to the silence of the state government to communicate to us when the payment will be made available to beneficiaries.
In the past months, we have exhibited the highest level of civility as expected from a body comprised of not only higher institution students but a parliament of intellect by writing, calling, texting and even mailing the chairman of the Lagos state scholarship board, the elusive and (everly unwilling to assist students) special adviser to the governor on education. We wish to state here that our correspondence has attracted no favorable response from the duo.
We are equally embarrassed by the undisputable fact that since the inception of this administration, we have never received our bursary and scholarship without having to protest across the state. The last being our protest in September 2016 and payment was approved after a week. We resolve that since this is the language the state respect, we shall be doing same this year to lawfully demand for our payment within the most civil way.
We are sad to our core to know as of December 2016 a total sum of N 650 million was approved for Education by the State House of Assembly as part of the Jubilee Budget as presented by the Governor Mr Akinwumi Ambode and 12 months on the state still finds it difficult to pay students bursary even when the 2017 fiscal year is drawing to an end. Is the state government telling us that the 2017 budget has underperformed or just its uncaring attitude towards Education.
While the state has continually engaged in the act of partying with its revenue, the human capital which can only be develop through adequate and effective education must not be ignored as being displayed by state government, hence, the need to center more on students’ sustainability who are the overall reason for investing in education.
We hereby challenge the state governor to a public discuss on the above subject of discuss, that is if His Excellency is not away with OLAMIDE parting with the state resources and neglecting the plight of students in the state.
While we communicate our disdain to this uncaring commitment of the state to educational purposes and support towards its own future leaders who sincerely need this funds to not only survive on campus but sometimes rely on it as the only source of paying school fees and purchasing textbooks on campus. We wish to state that should the state fail in its capacity to release funds for our payment, we shall begin a coordinated protest across the state starting from the office of the governor after seven working days of delivery of this letter to your office.
God bless the state.


DANIJU SULTAN O. MOSES SAMSON ADEWALE
NULASS NATIONAL PRESIDENT NANS JCC CHAIRMAN LAGOS STATE.
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