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  • Tuesday, 21 June 2016

    Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo ; Police clash with students


                   
    One dead, Scores injured
    Scores of protesting undergraduate students of the Ondo State-owned tertiary institution, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo (RUGIPO), were injured during a clash that involved armed officers of the B Divisional Police Station of the Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).
    The students were protesting following an accident that involved one of their female colleagues who was crushed on Saturday evening by a commercial motorcyclist
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    Several students correspondents that the female student, whose identity was yet to be ascertained as of press time, was from the Mass Communication department and was undergoing her National Diploma program in the institution.
    However, the injured student is feared dead by many students.
    Students accused the armed policemen of high-handedness and maltreatment of their fellow colleagues of destroying their personal belongings at their respective off-campus and private hostels during a search. 
    “These armed rampaging policemen came down to the off-campus and private hostels of the school in the name of a search-team and beat up many of our colleagues while rooms belonging to the female students were burnt with properties and credentials belonging to them badly damaged.
    “They destroyed properties worth millions of naira, mostly at a popular private hostel called Coco Hostel and also threw canisters of teargas at the innocent students, especially the ones that couldn’t run for their dear lives,” a student told SaharaReporters.
    The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of the B Divisional Police Station, Tajudeen Akande, had to escape by whiskers during the melee that occurred between his men and the protesting students.
    “Only God knows where the DPO was coming from, and upon sighting the protesting students who were very close to the Otapete Police Station, the police boss put up more speed and attempted to crush the students who had already block the road.
    “The students had to ventilate their boiling anger on the DPO. The beat him to pulp and damaged his vehicle before he narrowly escaped into the station,” a student told our correspondent. 
    Ebiseni Omojuwa, President of the Students Union Government (SUG) of the institution  said, that the armed policemen harassed and intimidated the protesting students with gunshots.
    “Many of our students were shot during the protest and they have been rushed to the Federal Medial Centre (FMC) in Owo,” he said.
    At FMC in Owo, several students with gunshot injuries were in critical condition at the adult emergency ward of the facility, while the health workers were hostile and barred journalists from taking photographs of the injured.

     -- Sahara reporters

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