Violence
had rocked the Ago Iwoye campus of the Olabisi Onabanjo University on Monday. As early
as 7.30 am, students had stormed the gates of the institution which they
succeeded in locking. Only to reportedly have two students of
the university shot dead with several others wounded following an ongoing
protest about against some of the “anti-students policy” of the school’s
management.
According
to StreetJournal,
some of the students revealed that one of the new policies stipulates that any
student who does not pay school fees on time would not be allowed into the exam
hall, which could mean an extra year for some.
Policemen
were however on the scene not long after and arrests were reportedly made.
Students claimed policemen opened fire on them and in minutes, the story
was trending on Twitter, with the pictures above.
However,
the police have denied that they shot students dead.
Mr Muyiwa
Adejobi, the spokesman of the Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Police Force.
Adejobi said:
They went
violent this morning and some of our men were deployed to disperse them. The
operation was led by a Deputy Commissioner and no live bullet was used so the
issue of killing does not arise at all.”
They are
just using the issue of killing to seek public sympathy. We don’t kill. That
was the same thing they said when there was a crisis in Tai Solarin University
of Education in Omu Ijebu, they said policemen killed four students. No one saw
the bodies. That is what they always say to win public sympathy”.
When
he was told by Street Journal’s reporter that pictures of one of those feared
dead in the protest were already on the internet, Adejobi who disclosed that he
had seen the picture said “we know the way students try to get sympathy. Let them
produce the corpse in the picture. They should bring the corpse to the police.”
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