CALLING GEN GUSAU & OTHERS ON NANS SITUATION

Dear Sir,

CALLING GEN GUSAU & OTHERS ON NANS SITUATION

I want to believe that many articles which one seems to have read soliciting the attention of the new National Security Adviser, retired Lt-Gen Aliyu Gusau, to the keg of gunpowder waiting to explode really interested him to put his men on the job. This has to do with the multiple Presidents of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS. The groups are inching towards a blowout.

While one headed by one Imagwe said to be operating from University of Benin had been vocal and recently awarded the EFCC Chairman a recognition; another headed by one Ememobong said to be operating from University of Uyo recently put up a strongly worded advertorial entitled “This Madness Must Stop” (The Nation newspaper of April 12, 2010) castigating the Imagwe faction as group of imposters. Sooner or later this could degenerate into a cult and physical fight and may get out of hand resulting in deaths.

This problem started when the National Association of Nigerian Students had their convention (election) at the Old Parade Ground in Abuja last year. Accusations were levelled against a sitting governor in one of the south-south States (Leadership newspaper of 24th December, 2009 refers) as the mastermind of the confusion now engulfing the Students Union.

For the umpteenth time, the populace is being joined to alert the National Security Adviser and the need for him to look into this matter before it gets out of hand. Other security agencies should show concern about this about this.

Dr. Segun Osobu, Osborne Road, Ikoyi-Lagos.