Three students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) were injured on Friday when policemen fired shots at
protesting students of the institution in Oyo State. The students were reportedly protesting on the Ogbomoso-Ilorin Expressway over the prolonged closure of the school when they were shot at.
It was gathered that three others were arrested. Fawole Isreal, one of the injured students said the protest was peaceful until policemen arrived and started shooting.
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, 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. The University staff have been on strike since June this year over payment of salaries and funding.
