FG must secure UNIJOS before the next resumption~ASUU

The Union made the request in a statement on Sunday following a security breach in Jos and other parts of Plateau state leading to the killing of some students, a development which forced the University to shut down the institution Until further notice.

The statement which was signed by the ASUU chairman, University of Jos, Dr Lazarus Maigoro,
observed that some of the immediate environments to the University have become hostile to the University community that students and staff are targeted and killed rather than protected from hoodlums.

The ASUU chairman said, “Our Union continues to scratch its head, to understand how the university community is always at the receiving end of the crisis in Jos. Despite all the provocation, we have continued to offer community service to all, irrespective of religion, culture, and tribe.

“The university administration has over the years made overtures to neighboring communities in terms of undergraduate admissions and staff employment, yet our students and staff are killed at the slightest provocation, no matter how far the epicenter of the crisis from the university.

The most recent is the crisis that occurred on Saturday 15th August 2021 and spread to other parts of Jos. The University is a citadel of learning where every category of individual works regardless of ethnic and religious affiliations and as a result, whenever, there is any security breach in town, this citadel of learning should not by any means be affected.

“But sadly, as soon as crisis situation erupts in any part of the town, the University students and staff suddenly become targets for assassination and butchery by residents of the immediate environment.

“It is rather unfortunate to note that some of these attacks on the University community are coming from residents of encroached University lands, operators of Keke Napep and others who besiege the University arena to sell their goods and patronized by the same staff and students as their means of economic livelihood but turn back and kill them at the slightest opportunity.