THE National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) contested the claims made by President Benigno Aquino 3rd in his last State of the Nation Address (SONA), branding it “a SONA of lies.”

“The figures cannot be denied by the magician and crook by the name of Benigno: we have an annual college dropout of 2.3 million and an annual out of school children and youth of 15 million,” Sarah Jane Elago, the NUSP national president, said.

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