OVER 100 armed policemen dispatched under the directive of the State Commissioner of Police, Maigari Dikko, yesterday, prevented members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Ebonyi State University, EBSU, Abakaliki chapter from peacefully protesting against Federal government's inability to address critical issues surrounding the education sector in the country.
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Apart from the armed policemen, some officials of other security agencies including the Department of State Services, DSS, were also, deployed at strategic corners in the institution to stop the protest.
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The policemen who were armed with AK 47 rifles, cannisters of tear gas among others, closed the gate leading to the College of Agricultural Science, CAS, Campus of the university, thereby obstructing members of the union from matching through the streets of Abakaliki, the state capital.
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Vanguard gathered that the policemen were also drafted to both Ishieke and Presco campuses of the university under the guise that the rally might be hijacked by hoodlums in the state.
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The EBSU-ASUU members who walked round the university campus carried placards with the inscriptions: "FG: Save University Education," "FG: Do not kill University education,"