Understudies from different higher foundations of learning in Osun State on Monday went in the city of Osogbo, the Osun State money to dissent a raise in their educational cost expenses.

The understudies, in their hundreds held drivers along the Gbongan-Ibadan street to recover, as their parade caused gridlock on the interstate.


What started as a peaceful protest eventually turned into riot after a fight between the protesting students and security agencies , where teargas canisters were used to disperse the students.
The tensed atmosphere therefore made the protesting students to overpower security agents at the entrance of the state secretariat, which housed the office of the Governor, which was barricaded for hours, halting movement in and out of the secretariat.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Information in the state, Mr Adelani Baderinwa in a press statement described the said increment in tuition fees as untrue.
He, however, advised the students to ” handle their reservations for increase in some fees payable in their institutions with maturity, sense of responsibility and reality of the situation at hand”.

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