 Now students of the Taraba State University Jalingo have grounded activities across the state capitol to protest the refusal of the government to pay the backlog of the lecturers' salaries. The students were angry when they discovered that the lecturers had withdrawn from participating in the exams, which was buried to commence today. The institution's chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASU at the maiden congress for 2023 agreed on no pay, no examination. The angry students' Indian numbers stormed the streets in protest, blocking major highways leading to Yola in the Damawa and Wukha re-road. Now the state commissioner of police, Abim Bola Shokoya, commanded his men on how they handled the situation. On the 9th of January 2020, it has been slated that we are supposed to start our examination today. It's the first semester of our examination today, starting with GST. On getting to the venue of the exams, we are told that the exams would not hold because our lecturers have been bought for the iPhone of their salaries. So as students of the Taraba State University, we are filling the veins of our lecturers. They have been on salary for more than 10 months without pay. These lecturers have new children. They have family to take care of. Without getting salaries, they cannot take care of their children. Now, as some of our students are almost 30 years old, and the more they continue to stay in school, they cannot go for NYSE. You know the NYSE has a date limit. So most of our students have gotten to that level and they cannot continue to stay in school because of unnecessary strike. So we are calling on the government. We are calling on the solidarity strike with our lecturers, the government and the school management to ensure that our lecturers have paid their 10-month salaries so that we can be taught and our exams will take place. Within the Taraba State University, staff, students, probably labor issues. It was peaceful until they came to town and then it turned rowdy. However, we've been able to contain them successfully. There is normalcy, unmitigated normalcy for now. Every peaceful protest has constitutional safeguard. So if one is coming up with genuine reasons and then going about peaceful protest, it is lawful. But when it is hijacked, all you allow brigands antisocial elements to hijack that protest. Then the police must come in and we must ensure that on no ground should there be breakdown of law and order.