Meanwhile, pictures and video clips obtained by PREMIUM TIMES also revealed students scampering for safety amidst sporadic gunshots.
Also in Oyo State, the protesting students said they were violently attacked by police officers on Iwo Road in Ibadan.The students had in the last two weeks consistently staged protests until Friday when they had altercations with the soldiers.
But rather than being discouraged, a student leader, Emiola Solomon, said they were determined to ensure that the universities are reopened.“So we continued with the protest on Monday but when we got to Iwo-Road, armed mobile police officers attacked us violently and broke some of the phones belonging to our members,” Mr Solomon said., Ile-Ife, also on Tuesday, converged to continue the protest against the ongoing strike by the Nigerian university workers’ unions. From the OAU campus, the students proceeded to Oduduwa University Ile-Ife and barricaded the Ibadan-Ife road and obstructed both human and vehicular movements.According to the public relations officer of the OAU students’ union, Taofeek Ogunperi, who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES on the phone, the students want the government and the striking workers to resolve their issues and call off the strike. He said: “We want the government and ASUU to find a common ground and call off the strike so that we can resume our academic activities. We solidarise with ASUU because their demands are genuine and they are for the betterment of education and by extension, Nigeria as a country.“The government should honour their agreement too and they should ensure they do due diligence in ASUU and get back to classes.”The strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities , which commenced on February 14, has clocked 93 days on Tuesday over unmet demands by the Nigerian government. Other workers’ unions within the university system have also embarked on strike over similar agitations. The workers’ agitations revolve around issues of poor welfare packages, revitalisation of the universities, and the alleged imposition of the Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System on the workers as a payment platform for their entitlements.
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