Last year the Socialist Society campaigned against the unjust imprisionment of a number of Nigerian students studying in Lagos who were arrested or threatened with arrest for fighting for the independence of their students’ union. One year on 10 of the students have not been able to return to university.
Struggle for their re-instatement must commence now!
Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) (CWI in Nigeria)
The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) welcome all students back to campus after the holiday. Now that we have resumed, bad welfare conditions, poor condition of accommodation, inadequate and overcrowded lecture theatres and education commercialization policies of the government continue to confront us. This therefore places the responsibility on us to resume the struggle for a free and quality education. To start with, we commend students for their steadfastness which compelled the University Management to restore the student Union last semester. However, we cannot yet shout hurrah, because about 10 student activists who fought valiantly for the independence of our union remain victimised. We must fight for their full and unconditional re-instatement.
You can help the campaign by sending protest letters to the Vice-Chancellor – mfaborode@yahoo.co.uk and mfaborod@oauife.edu.ng; the Registrar – registrar@oauife.edu.ng; the Federal Ministry of Education at enquiries@fme.gov.ng and te@fme.ng. Copies of all protest letters sent should be made available to the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI, Nigeria) at dsmcentre@yahoo.com.
