No fewer than 200 lecturers at the University of Ibadan on Saturday participated in a peaceful procession and enlightenment rally within the campus warning against deploying policemen to university campuses, asking President Goodluck Jonathan to show Nigerians that he could be

trusted by following the path of honour to implement the resolutions reached with the union.

According to CEOAFRICA.com correspondent, the rally commenced as early as 7am, as members of the academia converged on the entrance gate car park, picking their branded T Shirt with the message “saving public education.”

The shirt also carried various inscriptions such as "Walk out the Beasts in our system", "Work out and work to save public education", "FG walk the path of honour", and "Annulment of agreements a comedy of errors."

The ASUU members who were led in the campus procession by their executives under the leadership of its chairman, Dr Olusegun Ajiboye, said the union had not made any new demands that warranted the outburst from the supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike.

Ajiboye who lashed out at Wike said the minister had shown that he did not understand how many months it takes to recruit lecturers, adding that it means that the federal government was designing a plan to keep students at home till the middle of next year after which recruitment may have been completed.

According to ASUU, the federal government has lost focus on where to use security through what it called wastage use of the Nigerian police personnel deployed police to universities.

While saying the police suffer infrastructure deficit which was evident in their barracks nationwide, Ajiboye said lecturers were not Boko Haram terrorists that Nigerians were asking government to tame without success.

"It shows cluelessness in those leading us. The same police that has not been able to stop kidnapping, armed robbery, oil theft, or arrest corrupt politicians now become a tool of democratic oppression in the hands of our policy makers. They will all fail.

"Will the police come to the campuses with new hostels, laboratories, lecture rooms, Internet or what does Wike mean they will provide enabling environment. It is important for him to know that apart from politicians no Nigerian worker has an enabling working environment" he added.

Ajiboye said only the implementation of the FGN/ASUU resolutions of November 4 could create enabling environment and not deployment of police.