ASUU Strike: SSS are after me for declaring support for ongoing strike – NANS President

The President,National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, said men of the State Security Service (SSS) have been after him since he declared NANS support for the ongoing ASUU strike.

Comrade Prince Miaphen disclosed this on Friday, while addressing journalists in Jos.

According to him, “I will like the entire Nigerian Students, who bestowed on me the mandate of leading them, which I have never betrayed or derailed in this struggle, that my life is under threat by the men of the State Security Service (SSS) and if anything happens to me, the SSS should be held responsible.

He said, “With today’s event, it is obvious that men of the State Security Service (SSS) are after my life. It further confirms that the last attack on my resident was done by the SSS.

Adding that, “Today I saw them with my naked eyes, I identified two, among them out of the ten of them that came and they were well armed. I think it was only those two that know me and was lucky they didn’t see me, as I managed to escape, so that I can address the press in case anything happens to me.

Dailypost gathered that they came to the occasion venue organized by the National Association of Plateau Students, which was about to commence at the Plateau State Polytechni,c Jos, and were asking after the NANS president.

Miaphen further stated that, “I want to advise the SSS to leave Nigerian Students alone and channel their energy towards solving the numerous security issues affecting the Nigerian nation, other than interfering in students activities.

“I wish to categorically state that no amount of intimidation, harassment or blackmail can stop us from speaking against bad policies of government at all levels, especially at the educational level”.

It would be recalled that, on the 20th, July, 2013, Dailypost reported that, the NANS President in a statement said, “Yesterday, the 19th of July 2013 at about 1pm to 2pm, a white Jeep entered my house at Wamba Road GRA in Jos, with armed men and carted away almost all my property worth hundreds of thousands, after searching for me tirelessly to no avail. Fortunately for me, I had travelled to Ekiti State where I’m Schooling.

Lamenting further that, “Most surprising is that why would the attack on my person come just two days after I issued a press statement declaring support for ASUU’s national leadership for embarking on a legitimate strike to better the educational sector in Nigeria?

The statement further said his brother had reported the matter to the Police station in Tudun wada, Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State.

He listed the items missing to include, “A 36 inch flat screen television set, one 16 inch television set, a complete set of
home-theater, one 56 inch refrigerator, micro-wave, gas cooker and other valuables with an undisclosed sum of money”.