Crise à l'Ucad : les étudiants annoncent une plainte contre Ousmane Sonko
The Collective of Alumni Associations of Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (Ucad) announced on Tuesday its intention to file a complaint against Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, whom it accuses of "defamation", following statements made during a recent political tour.
In a public statement, the group indicated that this decision followed comments by the head of government that "students are being manipulated by opponents," an assertion that student representatives firmly reject, maintaining that the student movement is "autonomous, dignified and not instrumentalized."
The same source claims that a student named Abdoulaye Ba died following an intervention by law enforcement inside the Ucad social campus, after they were given permission to enter.
According to the group, this intervention took place while students were observing a "black day" decreed for Monday, February 9, without demonstrations or gatherings, with residents being asked to stay in their rooms.
The student association collective maintains that law enforcement entered the student residences around 10:00 AM, before conducting operations in the dormitories in the early evening. It denounces violence, vandalism, and theft of student property, which it attributes to the security forces.
The group holds the Senegalese state responsible, specifically the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, and the Minister of the Interior. It announces its intention to take legal action in the relevant national and international courts.
Furthermore, the students called upon human rights organizations to investigate the acts they described as "violence and barbarity".
The UCAD student association collective has also decreed a "dead university" measure until further notice and called on students to leave the campus, pending, according to them, the handling of their demands, the release of arrested comrades and judicial sanctions against the alleged perpetrators of the acts.
He was also outraged by the decision of the Dakar University Works Centre (Coud) to close the social campus, believing that it was taken "without consultation" with student representative bodies and in a context of "strong collective pain".
The Collective of student associations finally offered its condolences to the family of the deceased student and reaffirmed its commitment to defending the interests of the student community.
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