Rivers NURSS Unveils Students Parliament

A body labeled Rivers State Students Support Parliament (RISSUP) has been launched by the National Union of Rivers State Students (NURSS) to monitor developmental project in the state.

   President of NURSS, Elie Edison, made this known during a courtesy visit to Senator Wilson Ake, Senator Representing Rivers West Senatorial District at Abuja recently.

Aside monitoring project, Edison said RISSUP would also seek to protect students’ welfare in government policy implementation.

The body, the NURSS national president further asserted would embark on a monthly assessment of activities of public office holders in the state, with the aim of advancing the dream and aspirations of the Rivers man”.

Enumerating other programmes being evolved by the body to promote unity and understanding among politicians in the state, Comrade Edison stated that it would soon organize a retreat tagged, “Chief G.U. Ake Political Retreat”.

With the them “Politics – The Way Forward,” he stated that the retreat among other things would seek to unify all political interest in the state, advocate the participation of students in politics and good governance.

He stated that NURSS would also celebrate sons and daughters from Rivers State who have made the state proud in different fields of human endeavour.

Part of the scheme, he disclosed is a symposium in honour of Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan, first lady of the country.” The programme in expected to be a week-long activity and would afford her Excellency the opportunity to affect the lives and careers of Rivers undergraduates”.

Despite all these laudable programmes, the NURSS president informed Senator Ake that the body was still inundated with several challenges, which include lack of mobility.

Edison therefore, appealed to the chairman of the Senate Committee on Labour and Productivity to provide the union with a new bus, as the old one donated by the state government has broken down.

The NURSS president also tasked the senator to assist the body with some financial assistance, adding that the body mostly rely on the goodwill of both government and corporate bodies.

Christabel Agbor &  Imaebong Asuquo