Abuja — The FCT Joint Campus Committee of the National Association of Nigeria Students has criticized the recent closure of secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory for seven days in order to accommodate participants for the 2009 Abuja Carnival in the schools' hostels.

In a statement made available to City News over the weekend, the Committee's Chairman, Comrade Akoshile Mukhtar disclosed that the student body found the decision as capable of destroying the future of education in Nigeria.

"If today schools' are closed because of Abuja carnival, tomorrow another agency or Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) might want to follow the ungodly and un-human precedence laid down by the carnival organizers," he stated.

The students' leader explained that students can only be sent out of schools when there is breech in security or during holiday periods.

He noted that the educational sector in the country is just recovering from strikes that disrupted schools academic calendars as does not need another forced closure.

Comrade Mukhtar also warned politicians that use undergraduates in tertiary institution for their devilish activities to stay away from students, adding that there are laid down structures in institutions in the FCT to mobilize students for educational activities.