Some men of the Nigerian Police have been filmed shooting unarmed university students protesting over closure of their school.
The police shot at the students for protesting on the road
The shocking moment mobile policemen shot at the students of Ladoke
Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, on Friday,
while protesting over the prolonged closure of the school has been
captured on camera.
Three people were injured during the protest, while three others
were arrested. According to Punch, the unarmed students were shot at
while they were protesting on the Ogbomoso-Ilorin Expressway over the
prolonged closure of the school.
The university has been shut down since June 2016 over ownership
and funding crises caused by the two owner states, Oyo and Osun States.
Since then, the Students’ Union Government of the school had paid
several visits to the Ooni of Ife, the Olubadan of Ibadan, the Alafin of
Oyo and other traditional rulers in the two states to help them appeal
to the state governments.
Meanwhile, to solve the problem of funding, there have been rumours
that the owner states were planning to increase the tuition from
N65,000 for students who are indigenes of Osun and Oyo states and
N75,000 for non-indigenes to N350,000 respectively.
As a result of this development, about 100 students took to the
streets on Friday to protest against the six-month closure of the school
and the rumoured increase in tuition fees.
During the protest, several policemen fired teargas at some of the students, while shooting rubber bullets at others.
One of the injured students, Fawole Israel, said he was shot at three times by the police while he was on a motorcycle.
He said, “The protest was meant to be peaceful, but the police
came and caused chaos. I was shot at three times. I fell down from a
motorcycle. While I fell down, a policeman used the butt of his gun to
hit me on the head. My head bled.
“We have been doing nothing for the past six months and this is
not helping us. We are about to lose a full academic session. That was
why we had to protest.”
A member of the school’s SUG who was also among those protesting,
Abdulfatah Oloyede, said the police injured three students and arrested
three others.
“Right now, we don’t know the whereabouts of those arrested.
The injured ones have been taken to the hospital for treatment. The
protest was meant to be peaceful, but the mobile police came and caused
chaos. They started shooting at students. This is terrible,” he said.
Another student, Okedara Ridwan, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to come to the aid of the students.
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