A Press Release by The National Association of Bassa Students (NABS), Kogi LGA Chapter
There are various factors that cripples the growth and development of education in families, communities, regions and even a nation.
One of such could be ignorance, finance, infrastructures, manpower and sometime crisis.
The Bassa speaking people has been sidelined in recent times and even denied the dividends of democracy because of their low level of education.
It is no longer news that efforts has been putting in place to take off this shackles in other to liberate the Bassa nation as Bassa students are seen in almost every institution of learning across the the nation and beyond .
The lingering crisis between the Bassa and (their bitter rivals) Egbura in Kogi and Nasarawa state respectively has done no good to students most especially Bassa students as their hope of writing WAEC and NECO exams has been shattered.
In both Kogi and Nasarawa state some number of students have lost their lives some injured and others are been threatened to be killed should they appear in any of their specified examination centre.
The vulnerability of Bassa students in this baseless and annoying cleansing of the Bassa race a mission that is been carried by the Egburas nationally is worrisome as no reasonable measures that has been taken to bring a lasting solution to the menace.
Students are the future of our tomorrow as the Barton of a prosperous and peaceful leadership is been transmitted through acquiring quality education.
NABS Kogi LGA Chapter condemn the incessant killings and continual displacement of Bassa students from their various institutions of learning both in Kogi and Nasarawa state.
Our Plea
1. NABS is calling on both state governments to proffer proper and possibly solution to put an end to the ongoing crisis.
2. We are calling on the Federal Ministry of education to flood light on the refusal of Bassa students in participating in the National Examination and bring to book the principal officer that have hand in it.
3. State ministries of education (both Nasarawa and Kogi) should call back all displaced Bassa students to participate in the National Examination Council (NECO) exercise even as majority of them couldn’t meet up with WAEC exercise.
4. Ministries of education should make provision of non bias and uncompromising security personnel to safeguard the life of students during this exercise.
Conclusion
Education liberates us from ignorance, poverty and diseases. And if this civic right is been denied from students who are the future leaders of our great country then our socioeconomic status will be dwindled and posterity will never forgive us.
May peace reign again in our lands.
Signed:
Moses Emmanuel
President NABS Kogi LGA chapter.
Sam James Wala
Sec Gen Kogi LGA chapter.
