Government criticized for protecting vested interests

Dimapur, September 2 (MExN): The Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) today sharply criticized the government for protecting vested interests and “the accused” professor K Kannan, the embattled vice chancellor of Nagaland university. Unless the guilty are penalized, NU will continue to be hindered by “controversies”, the organization today reminded in a strong statement.

‘If guilty not penalized, NU will remain a mess’ 
“NPMHR takes serious note of the unqualified patronage and reckless intervention of interested individuals from the State Government. We are quite dismayed that instead of brokering a conducive atmosphere for the issues to take better turn, the state is using its police machinery to give protection to the main accused here, the Vice Chancellor. Nagaland University should not be seen as the last reservoir for money making or as a bastion for fancy developmental projects or as a nepotistic employment industry” stated the NPMHR in a statement today.
If the guilty are not penalized, the organization reminded, Nagaland University will continue to rock with controversies, as the precedence has already been laid. While appreciating the initiatives of the central Fact-Finding Committee, the organization has asked the university’s officials to “prove themselves publicly and locally” with the ‘charges’ of corruption, which the CAG and NUTA has so ‘blatantly and credibly’ highlighted, NPMHR stated.
The organization said to have been closely following Nagaland University since its inception in 1994. “… The Nagas have much to benefit from Nagaland University than what meets the eye today. NPMHR is also fully aware of the controversies that have been dodging the university since its formation. It is unfortunate for the Nagas in particular that a sober beginning for many generations has begun in such revelry manner, which persists even today, primarily drunk with nepotism and corruption issues” it stated.
The NPMHR queries the public on the simple fact that if the staffers, students and teachers, ‘who are the actual backbone, are out there in the streets’ to register their protest, then “something is certainly wrong with the University”. The NPMHR is for smooth functioning of the university and has called for resolving the corruption charges rather than “soothing with a compromise”.

On recent crime index
The NPMHR has also expressed ‘extreme frustrations’ over the recent rape of a pregnant mother by four youths. “Such inhuman and barbaric acts are reflections of how our society is so vulnerably exposed. It demands severest condemnation and punishment. We offer our unsolicited support and express our deepest sympathy to the victim and her family and also pray that she may overcome with strength the anguish of psychological trauma from such unthinkable acts” the statement from convener Atoho K Kiho stated.