I convey warmest greetings and felicitations to all Rivers State Student’s at home and in diaspora. In this trying moment, it is only helpful — to hope and work towards building a sustainable future and it is my desire to see all Nurssites break forth and their welfare considered to be of utmost priority by all and sundry.
The Leadership of the National Union of Rivers State Student’s led by my humble self as the National President upon assumption of office, promised to prioritize the welfare of all Rivers State. Regrettably, Rivers State students have suffered utter neglect and untold hardship as a result of non payment of bursary for five years and running. More often, their welfare did not seem to matter to the Rivers State Government.
We immediately kick started the process of ensuring Rivers State Students welfare was put in the front burner. Sadly, we exhausted the 2 C’s without making any headway. Having being left with just one C at our disposal, we ultimately decided to utilize the weapon in our arsenal to send a strong message and compel the appropriate bodies to swing into action and address all ills meted out on all Rivers State students for the past 5 years and counting……..
After consulting widely, we collectively decided to carry out a protest on Thursday, 26th November, 2020 in Port Harcourt the Rivers state capital. In the face of current realities, we have unanimously decided to temporarily suspend the planned protest for the following reasons;
1. SECURITY REPORT: Credible intelligence indicate that plans underway by unscrupulous elements,. hoodlums miscreant, thugs to surreptitiously capitalize on the planned peaceful protest in order to wreck havoc and orchestrate a state of pandemonium and lawlessness with the sole intention of indicting the leadership of NURSS. to stage a counter protest to ridicule and bring to naught, the calls and demands of all Rivers State students for the betterment of their welfare.
2. APPEALS BY WELL MEANING RIVERS SONS AND DAUGHTERS: After series of appeal and intervention by well meaning Rivers son’s and daughter’s including civil liberties organization, civil societies organization[b][/b] etc. It is only in the best interest of peace and also to enable all relevant parties come to a roundtable and iron out pertinent issues that impedes on the collectively growth and welfare of all Rivers State Students.
3. GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION: We are thrilled to announce to all Rivers State Students that the Rivers State Government has officially asked the NURSS leadership to compile data of all Rivers state students for the purpose of bursary payment. We are engaged in a productive dialogue with the Government and hopefully, bursary payment will be carried out and once again, smiles and
unexplainable joy will be visited on the faces of all Rivers State students.
Thank you and God bless you all.
Long Live NURSS NAT’L
Long Live Rivers State
Long Live Nigeria
Aluta Continua, Victoria Acerta
Signed: Levi Zachariah
