Protesting TASCE Students attack DPO

Protesting students of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu Ijebu, Ogun State southwest Nigeria, clashed with policemen this morning.

The students reportedly beat up the DPO and damaged his vehicle, after they were prevented from disrupting a semester examination planned for this morning.

After the attack on the DPO, the police reportedly returned with a reinforcement, and began shooting into the air to disperse the protesters. The police also made some arrests.

The students claimed one of them was hit by the shots fired by the police, but the police denied the claim. Trouble began after some student leaders, protesting the dissolution of their Students’ Union Government, SUG by the school authorities, demanded its reinstatement before a school examination, could go on this morning.

The school management suspended the SUG last week after it had also disrupted the examinations which was originally meant to start last Monday.

The student leaders were said to have taken the action to protest a management’s decision to prevent students who had not paid their school fees from writing the exams.

The school authorities and the SUG later reached a truce, and the examinations was rescheduled for today (Tuesday), while a number of policemen were deployed in the school to keep the peace.
But before the exercise could commence this morning, some SUG leaders insisted that the suspended union be reinstated first, which led to the confrontation between them and the police.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson of the Ogun State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed the incident to P.M.NEWS, said peace has returned to the premises.
Adejobi blamed the crisis on some miscreants who joined some students to disrupt academic activities at the school campus and attacked the Odogbolu Police Division DPO.