Naga students body takes exception to Naga gov’s directive
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The Naga Students’ Federation has taken exception to the Nagaland Governor R.N. Ravi’s directive to state government employees to refrain from indulging in seditious and subversive writings challenging the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country and posting them on social media platforms.
Reacting to a report published in this newspaper, the Naga Students Federation in a written press statement said, “The federation has taken a serious note of the impugned directive and views the same as another attempt by the Governor to undo the peace and understanding brought about by his predecessors.”
“The federation is dismayed at the recent attempt of the governor to silence the voice of Naga people and suppress our rights through his recent directive to the chief secretary of Nagaland.”
Referring one such specific instance of Dr H Inato Jimomi Naga, serving under the department of animal husbandry and veterinary department, Government of Nagaland, the commissioner and secretary to the governor T. Mahabemo Yanthan had asked the state chief secretary to initiate criminal proceedings against the officer while pointing out, “Such act of government servant constitutes serious offences under the penal laws and also gross misconduct under the service conduct rules inviting criminal prosecution and disciplinary action including dismissal from service.”
The governor had also directed all the heads of the departments to sensitise the state government employees in the regard, the commissioner and
● THE FEDERATION is dismayed at the recent attempt of the governor to silence the voice of Naga people and suppress our rights through Mr Ravi’s recent directive
secretary to governor in his letter to the state chief secretary said, “I have been directed to request the state government to take serious cognizance of such misconducts and initiate appropriate legal and disciplinary action against the delinquent government servants.
The federation in the statement signed by its general secretary Liremo Kikon said, “The federation would like to remind him that Naga peoples’ struggle for self-determination can in no way be treated as another secessionist movement. Instead it is merely a collective assertion of the Naga people to live as a people free from any illegal occupational forces based on historical facts. Therefore, not a single soul should be persecuted for voicing out the truth.”