CHAIRMAN, Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka branch, Dr. Emmanuel Mordi, at the weekend, said at least 20 lecturers, their spouses and relations, had been kidnapped in the last two years by gunmen.
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He stated this in Abraka while briefing the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, who visited the university, just as the Vice Chancellor, Prof Eric Arubayi, confirmed that the university and Abraka community were under siege.
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Aduba, however, explained the role police were playing to stem crime in the state, especially in the university community, and pleaded for support in passing useful information to the police. Mordi, worried by the manner kidnappers had zeroed-in on lecturers, feared they might destroy the academic environment.