“Any student in school today that has two square meal will be thanking his stars, three square meal is now a story of the past. To be candid to ourselves, the agony of Nigerian students is getting unbearable,” Obasi said. The statement read: “The pathetic situation of this country has called for a curious but serious concern, why are Nigerian students always at the losing end? This is a question that is eagerly begging for answer from the Nigerian government.
“Since the inception of this present administration headed by President Muhammadu Buhari, if we would be sincere to ourselves, retrogression has been the other of the day. The suffering and agony in the land call for the concern of every Nigerian students because this was not the change we voted for. Change we demanded, not chain. “In today’s Nigeria, students and parents are struggling to pay their school fees, some have even deferred semesters or withdrawn from the school because things are not auguring well.
“Any student in school today that has two square meal will be thanking his stars, three square meal is now a story of the past. To be candid to ourselves, the agony of Nigerian Students is getting unbearable.
“Lack of better alternative to get oneself financed in school has led many of Nigerian students to engage themselves in all form of atrocities and inimical social vices. In our various campuses, people hide under the slogan of “man must survive” to perpetuate their evil. Robbery and prostitution are now the reigning vogues in our institutions because truly, man needs to survive. Imagine, frustration even made secondary school students burnt down their school building in Oyo State.
