Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti
Teachers in Ekiti State have told the Department of State Services to immediately release three teachers in its custody in the interest of peace.
The three teachers were arrested while allegedly duplicating Permanent Voter Cards at Ola Oluwa Grammar School, Ilawe Road, Ado Ekiti.
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The teachers under the auspices of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools also denied working for the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Dr Kayode Fayemi.
The ASUSS Chairman, Sola Adigun, on Sunday, said the continued detention of the teachers was not in the best interest of the state, saying his colleagues were apolitical and should not be intimidated by any security agency.
Adigun urged the people of the state to discountenance a statement in circulation that it was working for Fayemi.
“The said statement, which could not be signed by the said faceless individuals for obvious display of cowardice, has been transmitted in the social media,” he noted.
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