ASUU STRIKE: Police Scatters Protesting Lecturers With Tear Gass
The
police in Gwagwalada area council of the federal Capital territory
(FCT), yesterday opened canisters of tear gas on members of the Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Abuja chapter, who
staged a peaceful protest in the area yesterday.
The policemen, numbering over 15, were said to have invaded the area and prevented the union members from marching round the town and entering the mini campus of the university as planned, restricting them to the main entrance of the campus.
The divisional police office of the Gwagwalada police division, Tony Okon, said they were in the area to prevent hoodlums from hijacking the protest.
Addressing the press, the chairman of ASUU in the institution, Dr Clement Chup, wondered why the police disrupted the process as the union had written to the FCT police commissioner and obtained his approval before embarking on the protest.
He said the protest was to restate the union’s commitment to the continuity of the strike action until the government fulfils the 2009 FGN-ASUU agreement.
“We are saying that the 2009 Agreement must stand and that the federal government must implement it. We are saying that our government should be responsible. We did not force them into it. They went into it free. We are not in any way going to be intimated even when they have denied us our salary. We shall continue and we know that victory sure,’’ he said.
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The policemen, numbering over 15, were said to have invaded the area and prevented the union members from marching round the town and entering the mini campus of the university as planned, restricting them to the main entrance of the campus.
The divisional police office of the Gwagwalada police division, Tony Okon, said they were in the area to prevent hoodlums from hijacking the protest.
Addressing the press, the chairman of ASUU in the institution, Dr Clement Chup, wondered why the police disrupted the process as the union had written to the FCT police commissioner and obtained his approval before embarking on the protest.
He said the protest was to restate the union’s commitment to the continuity of the strike action until the government fulfils the 2009 FGN-ASUU agreement.
“We are saying that the 2009 Agreement must stand and that the federal government must implement it. We are saying that our government should be responsible. We did not force them into it. They went into it free. We are not in any way going to be intimated even when they have denied us our salary. We shall continue and we know that victory sure,’’ he said.
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