#EndSARS:Govts’ poor response indication that Nigerian youths’ future under threat – ASUU
*Urges FG to engage youths,not kill them
ABUJA- ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,has said governments’ response over the #EndSARS protests,especially the killings at of protesters at Lekki tollgate, showed that the future of Nigerian youths was under threat.
The union, in a statement Friday’s night by its president, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi,condemned in strongest terms, the manner in which the government handled the Lekki incident which led to the loss of lives and injuries of various degrees.
While noting that the repression and killing of any citizen exercising the constitutionally guaranteed rights to protest was unjustifiable and criminal, the Union urged the Federal government to immediately, employ measures that would fish out the culprits and bring them to justice in order to calm frayed nerves.
He further urged the Federal Government to stop security operatives from senseless killing of armless youth protesters with infiltrators brought under check through active intelligence, adding that based on past betrayal, the youths were right to insist on seeing evidence of how well government has met its five-point demand.
In his words: ” From all indications, SARS had become an instrument of oppression; intimidating, extorting and killing innocent youth and citizens on trump charges. Those who survived the SARS experience tell gory tales.
Mere name-changing of the killer-organisation (SARS) is therefore not enough
to erase the deep-rooted impression of betrayal by a security outfit supported with tax-payers’ money. It will certainly not end the cruel murders widely perpetrated by SARS now changed to Special Weapon and Tactics (SWAT).
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