SHUT DOWN ABEOKUTA- IBADAN EXPRESS WAY.
The angry students infuriated with the catching of a red handed indigen thief began movement towards the main town putting up road blocks and closing down ABEOKUTA-IBADAN EXPRESS WAY.
While all these were going on, a little fracas was started
at Camp as reports stated that gunshots were heard as policemen were on
ground and were using tear gas and to disperse the crowd. In the midst
of the hullaballoo, *a first year student of the department of Forestry
and Wildlife Management; Abisoye Taiwo was shot in the left eye and was
initially rumored to be dead* although according to an eye witness
report, it was a can of tear gas that was ejected by the policeman who
took the shot, but the victim was rendered unconscious due to the force
and the range of the shot. The victim was rushed to the Federal Medical
Centre (FMC), Idi Aba, Abeokuta where he was reported to be placed under
Intensive Care by the NANS President, Comrade Opaleye Dotun p.k.a
Zamora and executives of the FUNAAB Students' Union before he was taken
to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan for further treatment.
Although FUNAABITES clamoured for picture evidence to back
up this claim, the NANS President and the excos explained to us that
they were denied pictures by the doctors at the hospital. This claim was
later confirmed by some students who were also at FMC at the time.
Nobody, particularly none of us would have thought We could muster
enough courage to take to the streets. We have always been regarded as
Advanced Secondary School students, but something changed yesterday.
Yesterday was the day I had imagined but never thought was going to
manifest. The Nigerian Police Force under whosoever authority might
have succeeded in chasing us off the street by firing bullets at us
*(which by the way, the Police were never supposed to come to a protest
or riot with guns talk less of firing at students)* But the STRUGGLE
CONTINUES and every one, to the very last one of us should be involved
in this STRUGGLE,
