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THE National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has joined the anti-corruption to university campuses with promises that corrupt vice chancellors would soon be exposed. The university students body made the declaration in a statement signed by Chinoso Obasi, its president, saying it had “made some remarkable advancement in its determination to align with anti-graft agencies in the fight against official corruption in the country, especially in the nation’s higher institutions.”

The statement said that the NANS would take advantage of the whistle-blowing window provided by the federal government to tackle corruption in the country especially on university campuses.

Consequently, it said after mobilising state chapters throughout the country, NANS was able to “identify multi-million naira assets of some vice chancellors, including those acquired through proxies, family members and siblings.”

“We are sure that the agencies of the Federal Government would on proper handling; net billions of naira in assets and proxy investments. It is baffling that administrators of higher institutions of learning should descend so low in primitive acquisition and unbridled corruption.

“By the time these leads are successfully pursued and suspects prosecuted, Nigerians must have got a clue as to why the appointment of heads of tertiary institutions has become a do-or-die affair, entailing bribery, intimidation and other desperate approaches,” the NANS statement said further.

It said the organisation had lodged necessary reports with the appropriate quarters, and assured that no amount of threats would make the students union to abandon its determination to expose corrupt leaders.

To further the campaign, it said: “We are putting final touches to our grand plan to mobilise millions of Nigerian students in a march against corruption in tertiary institutions, during which we hope to demand from President Muhammadu Buhari, the Field marshal of the anti-corruption armada; the removal of identified corrupt vice chancellors and administrators.”

— Mar 21, 2017 @ 18:50 GMT

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