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Vanguard, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2018—7
By Dayo Johnson
AKURE— ONDO State
capital, Akure, was
grounded for several hours
yesterday, as students of the
Adekunle Ajasin University,
Akungba, Akoko, marched on
the streets protesting the over
500 percent hike in their tuition
fee.
This is coming as the state
House of Assembly dissociated
itself from the increment of the
tuition fee paid by the students.
Leaders of student unions in
tertiary institutions across the
state, namely National
Association of Nigerian Students
NAN, and National Association
of Ondo State Students, NAOS,
led hundreds of the students to
the streets in the metropolis.
Thick smoke from bonfires
billowed into the sky as the
students barricaded Oyemekun
Road, the only major road in the
state capital.
Business and commercial
activities remained paralysed for
over six hours that the protest
lasted. The student were later
dispersed by the rains.
The students marched from
Oba Adesida to Alagbaka
causing gridlock.
Shops and departmental
stores along the Oba-Adesida,
Oyemekun, First Bank and
Alagbaka were hurriedly shut to
avoid looting by miscreants.
Some market women, who
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Ondo varsity students ground
Akure over 500% hike in fees
joined the protest, lashed out at
the institution's Governing
Council for the development and
called for a reversal forthwith.
Security operatives led by the
state Police commissioner,
Olugbenga Adeyanju, and his
deputy had hectic time
controlling the hundreds of
students, who displayed various
placards condemning the
increment and calling on the
government to reverse it for peace
to return to the state.
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Some policemen were injured
as stones were hurled at them by
the students after cannisters of
teargas were shot to disperse
them.
Vanguard gathered that some
of the students, who were
arrested, were later released on
the order of the state's
Commissioner of Police.
Unperturbed, the students,
who came prepared with their
handkerchief soaked in
kerosene, continued their
protest singing antigovernment
songs.
The tuition fee was N25,000
before it was increased to
N200,000 last weekend by the
institution governing council.
This development had
attracted condemnation across
the state from the students, their
parents and other stakeholders
across the state.
Meanwhile, the Speaker of
the state House of Assembly,
Bamidele Oloyelogun, and
Chairman House Committee
on lnformation, Fatai Olotu,
directed the institutions
governing council to revert
to the former fee.
They said that the
governing council breached
the agreement reached with
the House of Assembly that
before any increment will be
announced they would be
carried along.
They appealed to the
people of the state and
especially the parents and
students of the institution to
be calm as the crisis over the
fee would be addressed.
The fees
However, the institution
Head, Information, Protocol
and Public Relations, Sola
Imoru, in a statement
highlighted the new fees as
follows:
“Faculties of Arts and
Education: fresh students,
N150,000, returning
students, N120,000;
Faculties of Science, Agric,
Social and Management
Sciences: fresh students,
N180,000, returning
students, N150,000.
“Others include Faculty of
Law: fresh students,
N200,000, returning
students, N150,000.”
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Two GPMG, 114 AK-27 rifles, eight SMG rifles and 301 other assorted guns, prohibited
firearms, illegal weapons and locally-fabricated lethal devices recovered in the ongoing mopup
by the Force Headquarters Joint Task Enforcement Team, paraded at Police Headquarters,
Abuja, yesterday. PHOTO: Gbemiga Olamikan.
t get mass burial
five people were reported dead,
while two of the three others, who
sustained injuries, died yesterday
morning in the hospital.
The state command's Police
Public Relations Officer, Mathias
Tyopev, who confirmed the
incident said, “On Sunday, at
about 9p.m., one Pam Jack, the
youth leader of Nding-Loh, called
the Police Divisional Office in
Barkin Ladi Local Government,
saying on the same date at about
7.30p.m., five unknown gunmen,
suspected to be herdsmen,
attacked a burukutu drinking joint
at Nding village and shot eight
persons.
“On receipt of the report, a team
of detectives led by the DPO
rushed to the scene. On arrival,
five persons were found dead,
while three people, who were
injured were rushed to Barkin Ladi
General Hospital for medical
attention.
“Two out of the three people that
were injured during the attack
and were rushed to the hospital
later died. They were given
mass burial alongside the
other five that died earlier on.
“Peter Davou, who was
injured on his leg, was treated
and discharged.
“An investigation is on to
ascertain the remote and
immediate causes of the
attack. Two expended shell of
7.62mm ammunition were
recovered at the scene of the
crime.”
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