Why the Nigerian police took over Ekiti federal varsity - VC

THE Vice Chancellor of the Federal University,
Oye Ekiti, Prof. Kayode Soremekun, has said he
was not responsible for the heavy deployment of
policemen on the campus since Tuesday .
Soremekun said the unruly behaviour of some
protesting workers, who disrupted the campus
for two days from Monday, where they inflicted
bodily injuries on some academic staff for not
joining the strike in solidarity forced the Police
Commissioner, Mr Wilson Inalegwu to order
security beef up to ensure protection of lives and
property.
Staff under the auspices of the Senior Staff
Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and
Non-academic Staff Union(NASU), had on
Monday mobilized their members for a protest
to demand immediate
payment of their November and December
salaries, among other unresolved issues.
The unions accused Soremekun of stalling
attempt to effect promotion of workers, engaging
in arbitrary contracts’ award, non-payment of
hazard allowance, among other issues bordering
on workers’ welfare.
Speaking in Ado Ekiti on Friday on the crisis
rocking the university, Soremekun, said all the
outstanding salaries have been paid, describing
the inability of the workers to resume to work as
gross abuse of unionism.
“The police took over the gate and other
strategic portion of the school because of the
behaviour of some protesting workers. Why
should I deploy police to gag union leaders or
arrest them?”he said