The management of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, and the students have demanded justice for a 21-year-old student of the institution, Abdulqoyyum Bamidele, allegedly killed by the police in Ilorin, the state capital.
DAILY POST reports that on Thursday, students of the polytechnic, led by the institution’s Students’ Union President, Olalekan Isola, and the National President of the National Association of Kwara State Students, Abdulwahab Habeebullahi Arewa, marched to the state police command headquarters in Ilorin to demand justice for the fellow student, Abdulqoyyum Bamide, a National Diploma two 2 student of Electrical/Electronics Engineering of the institution.
'He was thereafter taken to the Kwara State General hospital where he gave up the ghost on Thursday morning and was buried the same morning according to Islamic religion burial rites,' a source said. It was gathered that Abdulqoyyum Bamide succumbed to his injuries at the state general hospital after losing a significant amount of blood.
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