UNICAL lecturers boycotts classes due to kidnapping

University of Calabar lecturers have decided to stay away from classes to embarked on industrial action to demand for armed security personnel to be deployed on campus and residential quarters following the kidnapping of lecturers and students at the residential quarters on Tuesday morning.

The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,Tonu Eyang told Vanguard that the lecturers feel insecure with the recent kidnappings on campus owing to the inadequate security within and around the campus and as such would not go to classes until the government takes decisive steps to secure the university environment.