From Timothy Olanrewaju, Maiduguri

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Trade unions in the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) have urged the Federal Government to intervene on security threats by Boko Haram.
The unions said Boko Haram ia already regrouping and threatening UNIMAID.
“Boko Haram proclaims western education as forbidden and UNIMAID is at the forefront of championing western education in the country.
“So, for Boko Haram, sustained attacks on the university would accentuate the insurgents’ wild ideology,” leader of the unions and chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr. Dani Mamman said at a briefing in Maiduguri, yesterday.
Mamman said ASUU, SSANU (Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities), NASU (Non Academic Staff Union), NATT (National Association of Academic Technologies), and Student Union Government (SUG) of the university were compelled to bring to the public the precarious security situation and threats to life at UNIMAID.
He disclosed that increasing Boko Haram attacks in the state, in recent time, shows that the insurgents are regrouping, and warned government to wake up to its responsibility.
Mamman said the unions were particularly worried that neither the Minister of Education nor a federal government delegation has visited the university since the January 16, 2017 first Boko Haram bombing of the campus, which killed a professor of vetenary medicine, Aliyu Usman Mani.
He said government’s action showed its “insensitivity to the plight of the university, students and parents” who lost loved ones, and added that government inaction also tends to support Boko Haram ideology against western education making the insurgents to keep the tempo of attacks on the campus, the latest being multiple explosions on June 25.
“That was the eighth deadly attack within five months,” the ASUU chairman said.
He disclosed that 70 professors and other staff that fled the university in the wake of incessant attacks have started returning, only to be confronted with suicide bomb attacks even while peace was gradually returning to the troubled state.
Dr. Mamman urged the federal government to build a perimeter fence at the university and approve the N2.8 billion requested by the university authority, to procure modern security equipment to stop the insurgents from carring out “greater attacks” on the campus.
The unions threatened to distrupt academic calendar of the university should the federal government fail to act.