Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Leaders Receive Death Threats

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Leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) complain of receiving death threats by phone messages and begin to go underground for fear of these lives.

This is made known in a record titled

“ASUU strike: Union leaders go underground” by ASUU, University of Ibadan (UI) chapter, signed by Dr Olusegun Ajiboye. In line with the claims, union leaders are now being tailed by unknown elements suspected to be security agents involved by the Federal Government.

The extract from the statement reads as follows:

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“In addition to the issue of finance (referring to withdrawn salaries) ASUU leaders are now trailed all around the place. Majority of our union leaders have now gone underground while many have their telephone lines bugged. Some are now surviving in fear because of their lives.

“The position of ASUU is that Nigeria is really a democratic country and citizens are guaranteed freedom of association. Members of the union are apprehensive for the lives of these leaders. We urge the federal government to leave our leaders alone."

Ajiboye urged the Federal Government to target on implementing the 2009 agreement, that was reached with the Union.

He also asked Inspector Mohammed Abubakar, General of Police,  to take care of the lives of ASUU leaders.