Oluwaseun Awodola, the student union president of Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has narrated how police officers killed two students
among those protesting poor electricity supply in the town at an event attended by the wife of the governor of Ekiti State, Bisi Fayemi, on Tuesday.
Mr Awodola, who was responding to a Twitter statement by Mrs Fayemi on the incident, demanded justice for the slain and injured students.The governor’s wife alleged that the protesting students, who were probably infiltrated by local thugs, had tried to prevent her from attending the event in the town but were stopped by the police.
He claimed he was at a meeting with the chief security officer to the governor of the state, a soldier, and the divisional police officer of Oye Ekiti when he was slapped by a police officer with the Counter-Terrorism Unit.FUOYE students protest My Awodola said from his hideout at the hostel, they could see police, MOPOLS, and CTU officers entering streets and shops chasing the students and shooting live bullets.
“I was in pain as my muscles keep contracting but I managed to come out to take a glimpse, but all we could see were policemen running and aiming at students, indigenes who were also fighting back at the police forces”
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