- The chairman of ASUU chapters of Bauchi state, Adamu Babayo, has been arrested by the DSS
- Babayo was detained by the operatives after he was invited to the department’s headquarters in the state
- The vice chairman of the association, Ibrahim Maina, on Sunday, November 11, condemned the action
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) chapter of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) and Bauchi State University, Gadau, has decried the detention of ATBU chapter chairman, Adamu Babayo, by the Department of State Services (DSS).
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the vice chairman of the association, Ibrahim Maina, condemned the action at a joint press conference on Sunday, November 11, in Bauchi.
Maina alleged that Babayo was detained by the DSS operatives on Sunday,November 11, when he was invited to the department’s headquarters in Bauchi.
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He said: “The ASUU chairman, Adamu Babayo was invited through a Short Service Message (SMS) which is not a formal way of invitation.
“On Friday he received a text message requesting him to report to the DSS office in Bauchi on Sunday. He went to the office together with some of the executives of the association.
“The DSS operatives requested other members of his entourage to leave and detained him in their office.”
Maina said that the action was a violation of fundamental human rights and queried the DSS to explain the reasons behind the arrest.
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According to him, “Let them explain to us why he was detained. That will give us the idea of what needs to be done.
“If the detention is in connection with the ongoing strike; it is a nationwide strike embarked on by the universities in the country and not a peculiar or personal problem. What wrong have we done by pressing for our rights through the strike.”
Maina maintained that industrial action is the rights of a worker as enshrined in the civil service act, which enable workers to press home their demands.
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However, a DSS official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, denied the allegation, insisting that Babayo was not detained but invited to answer some questions.
ASUU had on November 5 embarked on an indefinite strike to press for implementation of the agreement reached with federal government in 2017.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Abiodun Ogunyemi, said the union will not call off the ongoing industrial action until the federal government yields to its demands.
The union accused the federal government of not implementing of the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with it.
Ogunyemi who this disclosed this in an interview with Nigerian Tribune said the government only released N200 billion to the union between 2013 and 2017. He added that the ASUU is expecting the of balance of N1.1 trillion from the authority.
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