JAF denies ASUU participation in protest to save education

CALABAR — JOINT Action Front, JAF,
yesterday, debunked reports in a section
of the media that members of the
Academic Staff Union of Universities,
ASUU Cross River State, participated in
Wednesday’s protest to save public
education in Nigeria.
JAF said the reports were not only
mischievous, but Federal Government-
sponsored.
A statement by JAF Secretary, Comrade
Abiodun Aremu, insisted that ASUU
neither organised the ongoing nationwide
protest that started in Lagos nor
participated in the Calabar protest,
arguing that there was no ASUU banner
or leaflets at the protest march.
The statement read in part: “There was no
ASUU banner or leaflets at the protest
march. The JAF’s banner was the main
protest march banner and was
complemented by the banners of Nigerian
Students’ Rights Movement, NSRM, and
Education Rights Campaign, ERC.
“The over 20,000 leaflets circulated
throughout the protest march was mainly
authored by the JAF.
“JAF leadership represented by one of its
principal officer – Comrade Abiodun
Aremu, Secretary of JAF, was clearly in
the leadership of the protest from the
beginning when he declared it opened at
the Freedom (Botanical Garden) Park at
about 9.35a.m. to his closing remarks at
about 3p.m.
“Comrade Aremu addressed the rallies at
all the major points and his statements
were communicated in Efik language to
the people.”
Mr. Oku Ita spoke in Efik at the Calabar
Watt market and at Etim Edem Central
Park, with traders and transporters
coming around for leaflets and declaring
their support for the protest.

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