It was a dramatic Monday in the city of Abeokuta
as students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta began
their planned ‘one week’ protest tagged ‘Black Week’ bringing
transportation in and out of Abeokuta, the state capital to a halt.
It would be recalled that the students leaders of
MAPOLY last week declared a ‘one week’ protest christened ‘black
week’ to commence from 18th December, 2017.
This came on the heels of the state government’s
failures to meet the demands of both the students and MAPOLY ASUP to
permit that ND 1 students be admitted into either MAPOLY or Ogun
state Polytechnic, Ipokia, of which they had given an ultimatum of
one week.
The protest which started at 7:53am at Panseke,
Abeokuta saw the students marched down clothed in an all black outfit
to NNPC where they blocked all roads leading into and out of
Abeokuta.
Motorists and motorcyclists who had planned to
transit from their homes to their various destinations were filled
with disappointments as the students restricted movement of motor
vehicles.
The students were seen with various placards
depicting various inscriptions like ‘ MAPOLY must survive’ ,
‘bring back our exams’, ‘aluta continua’ and host of others.
Security officials were abound to ensure no
violence erupt even though at a certain time they fired tear gas at
the crowd to disperse them but the students were unyielding and
became more vociferous.
Moments later at exactly 11:40am, the Mobile
Police force arrived at the scene and started firing series of tear
gas at the students in order to ease the traffic jam caused by the
students.
The students, however, gathered together moments
later after the tear gas fired at them had disappeared to assert
their motive and craving of which to see the governor to the Mobile
Police men, after which they proceeded on foot from NNPC to the
Office of the Governor at Oke Mosan.
Upon arrival at the Office of the Governor at
12:15pm, the students obstructed transportation on the road while
demanding to see the Governor.
During the wait for the Governor, the Secretary to
the State Governor, Barrister Taiwo Adeoluwa ordered a tear gas to be
fired at the crowd in order to disperse the crowd which led to the
collapse of a student who is rumored to be an asthmatic patient.
The student was ultimately rushed to the state
hospital, Oke Mosan in an ambulance.
The students, however, departed unanimously back
to their homes after they learnt the Governor is out of the state
with plan to continue the protest
tomorrow.
Credit: Mapoly Press
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