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ASUU assaults waiting journalist

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10 years ago

December 17, 2013

Contrary to the earliar report that the strike has
been called off! ASUU will but Check this out!
After hours of endless waiting by journalists,
leaders of the Academic Staff Union of University,
emerged from the Senate Building of the Federal
University of Technology, Minna, venue of the
National Executive Committee meeting of the union,
to harass the anxious newsmen.
They shouted repeatedly, “who invited these silly
people.”
One of the notable members of the Union that
instructed security men to order the journalists to
leave the building is the Chairman of ASUU in
FUT, Minna, Dr. Abdulfatai Jimoh, who went
ahead to assault the Daily Trust correspondent,
Aliyu Hamagan.
Jimoh had earlier thought Hamagan was a member
of the Union and invited him to come closer. He
then asked, “Who brought this silly people inside?
What are they doing here?”
Hamagan, however, responded, “I am one of the
people you are calling silly. I will not have you insult
us like that.”
Jimoh, on finding out that he was speaking with a
journalist, pushed Hamagan and asked him to leave
the premises, saying, “You people are intruding, we
did not invite you. Get out of this place now.”
The meeting, which started at about 11.30am and
holding in behind closed doors at the Senate
Building of the FUT, Minna, was ongoing at the time
of filing this report at about 7pm.
The scenario took another twist when members of
ASUU NEC LOC emerged to inform journalists
that some of them (ASUU) are not comfortable
with the presence of the pressmen.
Jimoh, who was at this time furious, threatened the
media men, saying “Anything wey una see, make una
take am like that, because we didn’t invite the
media.”
However, there was a disagreement among the
members over the presence of the media. Some
suggested that the journalists should stay because
they were doing their job, others persisted that “we
did not invite them. When we need them, we will
invite them.”
The Vice Chancellor FUT, Minna, Prof. Musbau
Akanji, who got the news that ASUU assaulted
some journalists, rushed to the venue pleading with
the journalists.
“Although, I am not a part of the meeting, but I am
apologising on their behave because they are in my
territory. This place (FUT, Minna) is a Federal
Government institution, and it is a public place that
everybody including journalists can enter especially
when they are discharging their responsibilities,”
Akanji said.