Lumami, June 2 (MExN): The Nagaland University Non-Teaching Staff Association (NUNTSA) has strongly condemned the “harassment, threat and assault” meted out to students, faculty and staff of Nagaland University, without any provocation by “some youths in inebriated state” on May 19 on the highway between Mokokchung and Nagaland University headquarters, Lumami.
In a press release, NUNTSA strongly urged upon all right-thinking citizens and organizations to condemn the incident, while also urging upon the competent authority of Nagaland University to take measures to safeguard the University community.
NUNTSA stated that “hooligans” waylaid Nagaland University bus and vehicles belonging to faculty and staff of the university at a place under Mokokchung district administration “nearby Sumi Settsu village”. In this regard, the University has already written to SDO (Civil), Akuluto to take necessary actions, it added.
“Even after the incident, there was a threat to a senior faculty member in his office room,” it stated revealing that the threat was made through a phone call brought by one of the miscreants, wherein a person “claiming to be an underground based at Dimapur”, tendered apology on behalf of the unruly youths but followed it with a threat demanding that the complaint be withdrawn. This, the association rued, has further increased the “sense of insecurity” among the University community.
