Nigeria: How Students Can Stop Bad Governance - Namadi Sambo

13 January 2014

Zaria — Vice President Namadi Sambo at the weekend said Nigerian students can emulate their predecessors in bringing an end to bad governance in Nigeria through protests.

Sambo, while speaking at the Ahmadu Bello University's maiden homecoming celebration of past student leaders of the institution said: "I remember even before our time how students from the University of Ibadan came out to the Nigerian parliament to oppose the defence pact, which was meant to retain some measure of control by the British on Nigeria and the pact was aborted. I remember how Nigerian students were vanguards in the fight against apartheid and liberation of some African countries. There were times when whichever policy the government was considering, the first consideration was whether people would accept it. And that time when they said people, the first reference was students who would react on behalf of the people. After independence, the students' vanguard, even during military rule, was always active in protesting against bad governance and bad policies. I am glad that the dynamism that has always characterised students of Nigerian universities and other tertiary institutions has remained and is being enhanced by the present crew of Nigerian students.

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