Tuensang fiasco: ENCSU demands erring officers to be named 

Dimapur, May 31 (MExN): The Eastern Nagaland College Students' Union (ENCSU) on Sunday demanded that the names of the ‘misleading officers or person’ involved in sending returnees to Tuensang on May 26 ‘without any proper safety,’ be brought out in the public domain.


In a press release issued on May 31, the ENCSU alleged that the “state government has totally violated the Disaster Management Act, protocol and SOP of COVID-19” and stated that the government “should not delay or hide those officers on this situation.”


ENCSU further demanded that the 15 day period given to the 3-member Judicial Inquiry Committee constituted for judicial inquiry into the matter be reduced to one week. 


It also placed on record that ENCSU is “not against any respected tribes of Nagaland or any section of organization.”  In fact, we are questioning the state government for playing with the lives of Eastern students in particular and Eastern Nagaland in general, it added. 


ENCSU meanwhile questioned the transfer and posting of a top official in the Health Department terming it as an attempt to ‘bluff’ the union. It also questioned the functioning of state COVID-19 War Room as well as the ‘silence’ on the part of the Kohima District Administration. 


It further expressed ‘doubt’ over the “assurance to send BSL-2 labs at Tuensang, when the Dimapur are yet to install so far,” and urged the State Government and the concerned department to “immediately provide the manpower to setup the BSL-3 labs in Eastern areas.”