MAPOLY: Lecturers alleged death threats, begin indefinite strike
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The crisis rocking the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta, Ogun State, has assumed a new twist as lecturers of the institution, at the weekend, declared indefinite strike over alleged threat to their lives.
They accused the Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s administration of unleashing state machinery to harass them and threaten their lives over their union’s stance on the upgrading of MAPOLY into a university of science and technology as well as controversial creation of a new state polytechnic in Ipokia.
The Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), MAPOLY chapter, Comrade Kola Abiola, confirmed the strike, saying the decision was taken at the union’s emergency meeting in Abeokuta at the weekend.
Abiola, who claimed that some unknown people have trailed him on two occasions to the junction of his residence, said the lives of leaders and members of the union are no longer secure in the school. He noted that the state government had not met the lecturers’ demands, even as he accused the former Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Peter Okebukola, of plotting to destroy the polytechnic with his activities as chair of the transition committee.
He said, “Never before has lives been threatened since July 3, that we began this struggle and we want to believe that we have not gone confrontational. We have asked for audience with the government and we have used every medium available to us, even meeting traditional leaders and people that matter in Ogun State, to make the government of the state to talk to us. “But as we speak, the government has unleashed state machinery.
He said, “Never before has lives been threatened since July 3, that we began this struggle and we want to believe that we have not gone confrontational. We have asked for audience with the government and we have used every medium available to us, even meeting traditional leaders and people that matter in Ogun State, to make the government of the state to talk to us. “But as we speak, the government has unleashed state machinery.
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