NANS calls on Jonathan to sack Okonjo-Iweala

Apparently reacting to the threat by the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to resign if the Federal Government reversed the pump price,  the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to sack the minister with immediate effect.
Addressing newsmen in Jos, the NANS Public Relations Officer,  Zone D, Mr Victor Mangse, who made the call in Jos,  said the removal of the subsidy had compounded both economic and security situation in the country and called on all students to rise to the occasion.
Mr Mangse, who addressed  newsmen along with other national executive of the union,  dissociated themselves from the position of the national leadership of the association as  regards  the issue, saying that the office of  the NANS president was bigger than an individual.

Said he:  “We the leadership of NANS zone C and the students of Plateau State want to show  pains and displeasure in the current decision of President Goodluck Jonathan as regards the present removal of fuel subsidy and it is a practical effort  to aggravate the sufferings  of the common man in this great nation; if there are no physical development and changes from the trillions of Naira of our yearly budget, we are very sure that the proceeds gotten from the subsidy removal will make no meaningful change in the Nigerian economy.”
NANS called on all progressively-minded students and civil society groups to resist the decision, asking the president to abide by the resolution of the members of the House of Representatives.
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