ASUU OFFICIALS IN STREET BRAWL WITH SOCIALIST PARTY

Leaders of  the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Cross River state who were on public protest on the streets of Calabar yesterday engaged officials of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) in a street brawl.

The SPN were also on similar mission of protest but both parties threw caution to the wind and engaged in a free-for-all fight right opposite Governor Liyel Imoke’s office in Calabar.
Daily Trust learnt that trouble started when each of the parties wanted to be the leader of the protest into the governor’s office.
When SPN leaders saw that ASUU officials, Non Academic Staff of Universities, National Union of Teachers, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities in collaboration with Joint Action Front (JAF) were having the upper hand, they ordered their boys to shove the ASUU officials aside and take over the protest.
This led to both groups dragging themselves about, punching and tearing each other banners and hurling inventives at each other.
It took the intervention of mobile policemen on patrol in the neighbourhood and those at the governor’s office to restore order.
An Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) who led the police team warned them against further disruption of public.

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