SSANU AND NASU OFFICIALS ARRESTED BY POLICE OVER FUTA CRISIS

The leadership of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria
University (SSANU) and Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) of
the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) have
accused the police of arresting 70 of its members for merely
fighting for their rights.
Disclosing this to reporters in Akure, the state capital, the
FUTA Chapter NASU chairman, Adebayo Aladerotohun said the
police had been laying ambush for their members at the school
gate and that some were arrested at their homes.
Aladerotohun noted that most of the arrested members were
immediately arraigned before the court.
He explained that “no one could ascertain the reasons behind
the arrest of these staff and some of our members were
arrested in their homes. They arrested some of them at the
school gates while some were arrested in the town.”
The NASU chairman, who said he was not in court to give the
full details of the charges said “I couldn’t get near the court
because information available to us showed that the two union
leaders are the target of arrest but I will get across to you
immediately we have the information about what they were
arraigned for.”
Confirming the development, the State Police Public Relations
Officer (PPRO) Femi Joseph, said those arrested by his men
were causing breach of peace in the institution.
Joseph
said
some
staff
of the
university assaulted some of his men who were in the
university to maintain law and order
He denied that the number of arrest made by his men was up
to 70, saying “that figure was outrageous and some of those
arrested were released after interrogation but those involved
have been charged to court.
“But the truth of the matter is that those arrested were
involved in breach of peace in the institution; some of our men
were assaulted by the workers and they have been arrested
and arraigned before the court.