NANS new leadership calls for release of remaining Afaka students

The new leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone ‘A’ has called on the Kaduna State government to fasttrack the release of the remaining 29 students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, who were abducted over a month ago.

Arewa Trust Weekly reports that NANS Zone ‘A’ comprises 10 states Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, Katsina, Niger, Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Gombe and Bauchi.

A communique issued at the end of the association’s annual zonal convention in Zamfara State condemned what it described as “continuous attacks on schools by bandits and kidnappers including the abduction of innocent Nigerian students”.

The communique, which was signed by the Chairman, communique drafting committee, S. A. Lukman, Secretary, Baba Waziri as well as the convention Chairman and Clerk, Ibrahim Yerima and Muhammad Saba, respectively, approved the conceptualisation of ‘Safe Campus Initiative’ to complement security network on campuses.

The communiqué, issued in Kaduna, stated that the election into the office of convention chairman saw the emergence of Ibrahim Yerima while Comrade Muhammed Adamu Kachinga of Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aleiro emerged as the coordinator.

It stated that Comrade Idris Isah Sanata of Ibrahim Babangida University emerged as Zonal Secretary, while Abubakar Baba of Umar Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic, Sokoto emerged as Assistant Secretary-General, and Falalu Aliyu Dan Rimi of Federal University Dutse, Jigawa State as the Financial Secretary.

Others are Ahmed Abubakar of ABU Zaria, as Treasurer; Bello Hassan of FCE Bichi, as Sports Director; Adamu Shamsiya of Federal University Dutse, as Director of Gender; Bashir Lawal Abdul of Gusau Polytechnic, Talata Mafara as Director of Special Duties; and Abdulsalam Ibrahim of Federal College of Education Kano, as Director of Contact and Mobilisation.