The Senate leadership of National Association of Nigerian students (NANS) says it has concluded plans to engage the management of Yaba College of Technology on their planned Senate section and lying in state of Late Comrade Oladele Sunday, first president of (NANS).
In a press statement on Thursday by NANS President, Chuks Okafor says Nigerians have already been informed of the proposed National burial for the Late leader stressing that one of the students Hostel/Hall named after Late Oladele Sunday.
According to Okafor, no word can express the sad mood of Nigeria students, former and present student leaders especially acknowledging the real fact that the Late Sunday spent 41years struggling to get his certificate from Yaba College of Technology.
“By the words of Martin Luther King, a man dies when he refused to stand up for justice , a man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true”
“The truth is that Yaba College of Technology need to immortalize the Late former NANS leader to pacify teaming millions of Nigerian students who see the injustice against the first NANS president as one humiliation too many”
“While we join other Nigerians to prepare for the National burial, we appeal for cooperation of Yaba College of Technology management in any capacity capable of guarantee a National burial and immortalization of our former leader”
