Students in Ogun State, under the auspices of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and the National Association of Ogun State Students (NAOSS), on Tuesday protested the alleged killing of a student of Gateway Polytechnic, Idowu Pelumi David, by a hit-and-run driver.
Idowu, a ND1 student of Public Administration, was reportedly crushed to death by a hit-and-run driver in front of the camp of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) along Ayepe-Sagumu road last week.
The students accused a staff of the NYSC of driving the car that killed Idowu.
They staged the protest at the Ogun State Police Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, demanding an investigation into Idowu’s death.
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They carried placards with inscriptions such as: ‘Every life matters’, ‘We cannot be silenced on justice’ and ‘Ogun Students Demands Arrest and Prosecution of NYSC State Coordinator’.
The state chairman of NANS, Francis Adeyanju said, “We are here to register our displeasure over the demise of one of our students. We want to believe that justice will prevail.
“We have done our investigation and we have seen the truth, but it seems these people are trying to hide something from us. The state coordinator of NYSC is trying to hide something from us, she is hiding the driver of the suspected car that killed the student.
“Eyewitness claimed that the driver of the suspected vehicle that killed the student drove into the NYSC camp immediately but the state coordinator has continued to deny this obvious truth.”
Also speaking, the National President of NAOSS, Kehinde Thomas, accused the state coordinator of NYSC of alleged cover up.
Addressing the protesters, the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Operations, Manger Fergus, said the police had already commenced investigation into the death of the student.
He assured the students of justice and urged them to remain peaceful in expressing their grievances.
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