VEECUBED community: "Our lives are being threatend because of strike"

Leaders of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have gone underground following alleged threat to their lives by security agents.

Academic activities in public universities across the country have been grounded for the fourth month running as a result of strike by the universities’ teachers to press home their demands for the implementation of the agreement they entered into with the Federal Government in 2009.

The alleged threat on ASUU leaders was contained in a release made available to journalists in Ibadan on Sunday by the University of Ibadan chapter chairman of the union, Olusegun Ajiboye.

ASUU alleged that the academic union has been under the siege of security agencies nationwide by beaming searchlights on the sources of finance of members of the union despite the stoppage of their salaries by the Federal Government.

In the release titled, “ASUU Strike: Union Leaders Go Underground”, Ajiboye alleged that he had received some calls, warning him about his role in the ongoing strike, and called on the Inspector General of Police to save the lives of ASUU leaders nationwide.

“A majority of our union leaders have now gone underground while many have their telephone lines bugged. Some are now living in fear of their lives.