NANS slams UNIPORT over students’ union dissolution, insists on due process

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has condemned the determination by the University of Port Harcourt to dissolve its Students’ Union Government, SUG, describing the enactment arsenic a usurpation of students’ antiauthoritarian rights and calling for its contiguous reversal.

In a connection signed by its National President, Akinteye Babatunde Afeez, at the weekend, NANS expressed interest implicit a memorandum issued by the university’s Office of the Dean of Student Affairs, announcing the dissolution of the Students’ Union, Hall Representatives, and each different students’ national activities with contiguous effect.

While acknowledging the assemblage management’s authorization to analyse allegations of misconduct involving elected pupil leaders, NANS argued that dissolving the Students’ Union without owed process, transparency, oregon a just proceeding was unacceptable.

“The Students’ Union is simply a democratically elected assemblage established to correspond the interests and payment of students and should not beryllium dissolved done an administrative directive without intelligibly stated allegations, a due investigation, and an accidental for the affected officials to support themselves,” the pupil assemblage said.

NANS besides questioned aspects of the university’s directive, noting that the memorandum instructed national officials to instantly han...