Wednesday after a protest turned tragic, two students reportedly
killed while several others injured.
Reports gathered that it all started when an ND 2 student of
Accountancy department was knocked down and killed by a vehicle
using one way on Tuesday.
The aggrieved students, on Wednesday, blocked the main road in a
peaceful protest demanding the state government to install speed
bumps on the road.
The protest reportedly took another dimension when the security
operatives called to calm the scene reportedly teargas and bullets in
the air and at the students.
Speaking to newsmen, the Public Relation Officer (PRO) of the
Student Union Government (SUG), Jafaru Habibu, explained that
“the incident has been reoccurring in the school for sometime
because we have lost a lot of students and this sparked a lot of
reactions from students and we decided to embark on a peaceful
protest.”
Akwanga highway, the police shot two of their students of which one
died instantly while the other one has been rushed to the hospital.
”We are always paying all the fees the institution ask us to pay so
they should also meet our demands, government has continued to
turn deaf ears to our plea of constructing bumps along the school
road,” he added.
The Registrar of the Polytechnic, Labani Joseph, said that the
management had earlier appealed to the students to shelve their
protest and go back to class saying that the management of the
institution promised to look into the matter but the students paid
deaf ears to their pleas.
He explained that, when the protest got to its peak, they had to
invite the security operatives to calm down the situation, which led
to the gun duel between the students and security operatives.
The Registrar, however, pronounced that, the school has been closed
down indefinitely as a result of the crises.
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