Newmai News Network
Kohima | August 20
The NSCN-K authority has directly refused to hand over the main culprit behind the August 16 shooting incident, wherein NSCN-K cadre Yehokhu Sema made a bid on the life of two Angami youths.
Informing this today, the Angami Students’ Union (ASU) president Kelhouneizo Yhome said that the NSCN-K authority had contacted the ASU and AYO officials over phone and conveyed their inability to hand over the culprit as demanded by them after the public meeting on August 18. However, Yhome maintained talking over phone cannot be accepted as official and therefore ‘we want that they should come to table and discuss over the incident.’ “We received an apology and clarification letter today. But we are demanding that the culprit be handed over to the public”, Yhome said, adding that they will decide their further course of action tomorrow.
He also reiterated that the students and youth set the deadline till 3:00 pm today for the NSCN-K authority to have a meeting with them and also handover the culprit. However, he lamented that they conveyed their inability only through phone. “Our main charter of demand was to hand over the culprit to us till 3:00 pm, however they (NSCN-K authority) have failed to do so,” he said.
Therefore, following the NSCN-K refusal, the Angami Youth Organisation and Angami Students’ Union has called upon all its range and unit officials of ASU and AYO to attend an emergency meeting at 11:00 am on Tuesday to discuss the second phase of agitation against the NSCN-K.
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