Former presidential spokesman and Arise News anchor, Reuben Abati, on Thursday faulted the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, for inspecting road projects in some parts of the country and reporting their findings to the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi.
Abati said the students should be in their classes studying
instead of inspecting road projects.
The NANS delegation, led by its President, Comrade Babatunde
Akinteye Afeez, had embarked on a nationwide Federal Roads Project Tour,
inspecting projects in parts of the North-West and other areas of the country.
Following their inspection, the students commended the
quality, durability and pace of construction on the projects visited, while
identifying areas requiring additional attention, particularly pedestrian
bridges around tertiary institutions where major highways intersect with campus
access routes.
Receiving the report of the tour, Umahi said what
particularly impressed him was that the students independently requested access
to project sites across the six geopolitical zones.
According to him, even when the Ministry of Works offered to
assist with logistics, the students declined, insisting that they wanted to see
the projects themselves and form their own assessment.
However, speaking on Arise Television’s Morning Show, Abati
described the NANS road tour as ‘curious’.
He said, “Minister Umahi was talking to a group of students,
NANS. They went on an inspection of Federal Government road projects in Kano,
Jigawa, Kaduna, all the way to Sokoto State and the whole of the North-West.
“And they brought a report to the Minister of Works that
this is what we have observed. Please how is it that Nigerian students are now
the ones going about inspecting road projects?
“These are students, NANS is an association of students. Why
are these students not focusing on their studies? Why are they becoming
politicians going about inspecting projects and giving reports to the minister?
“When I was a student, we were very serious people, you have
to stay on campus, you have to attend classes, but now students are inspecting
road projects and I find that very curious.”
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