Pandemonium rocked the Nasarawa State Polytechnic, Lafia, on Wednesday after a protest turned tragic, two students reportedly killed while several others injured.

Reports gathered that it all started when an ND 2 student of Accountancy department was knocked down and killed by a vehicle using one way on Tuesday.

The aggrieved students, on Wednesday, blocked the main road in a peaceful protest demanding the state government to install speed bumps on the road.

The protest reportedly took another dimension when the security operatives called to calm the scene reportedly teargas and bullets in the air and at the students.


Speaking to newsmen, the Public Relation Officer (PRO) of the Student Union Government (SUG), Jafaru Habibu, explained that “the incident has been reoccurring in the school for sometime because we have lost a lot of students and this sparked a lot of reactions from students and we decided to embark on a peaceful protest.”

”While they were protesting the loss of their student on the Lafia- Akwanga highway, the police shot two of their students of which one died instantly while the other one has been rushed to the hospital.

”We are always paying all the fees the institution ask us to pay so they should also meet our demands, government has continued to turn deaf ears to our plea of constructing bumps along the school road,” he added.

The Registrar of the Polytechnic, Labani Joseph, said that the management had earlier appealed to the students to shelve their protest and go back to class saying that the management of the institution promised to look into the matter but the students paid deaf ears to their pleas.

He explained that, when the protest got to its peak, they had to invite the security operatives to calm down the situation, which led to the gun duel between the students and security operatives.

The Registrar, however, pronounced that, the school has been closed down indefinitely as a result of the crises.

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everything is just upside down in this country.how did we get to this state
we need an angel
God we look up to you in this trying time.
ftc
thunder fire the poster below me u wan book space

This regime is synonymous to bad news...............

Nawa o, RIP to those who lost thier lives. Most Nigerian Police are mentally unstable just wondering who is policing the police

Nigeria which way
Things are so bad, so so bad

Sai buhari

They just test thier strength and give them guns and uniforms they forgot sanity, moral value, intelligence and subtlety matters, still the police is your friend, but call them to come and shoot thieves armed to the teeth thats when you see the cowardice in them.

if u survive living in front of this school u can survive living in borno
cult matter don de die small small for der
miss Naspoly
LA vile...

Polytechnic and wahala like

Why lose your life over this, we should all be careful

Did the registrar say "gun duel between the students and security forces?"
God will judge all.
RIP to the dead.

Violence is never d way forward...

Imagine the registrar's alleging a gun duel between students and security operative

SMH


Am sure one day we all are going to give account of the life given to us and the ones we were asked to take care of.

] I cant really tell what this country is turning into.. violence and protest is the only language the government understands

A gun duel? Were the students with guns? #Weird

RIP to those that lost their life

This serz..

The rector said it was an exchange of gun fire between the police and the students..... this is the version they will use to justify the killings of innocent students. The country has finally become a den where law enforcement officials can kill at will, detain at will and even disobey court orders at will. Show me your leader and I'll predict your level of ignorance.

AND AFTER ALL THESE ..... STRUGGLE ... GOVERNMENT WONT EVEN PROVIDE EVERYBODY .... THE SURVIVALS(GRADUATES) WITH GOOD JOB.

Nigerian police are good at killing unarmed and peaceful citizens. I am yet to hear when police kill a boko are ram or Fulani Herdsmen. SMH. RIP to those students. Meanwhile, the look the roads well before you cross

Police can run wen thieves show up
But dey can wait n shoot students protesting..
...Poor Nigerian police

please take it jeje

Deaf Governor, deaf President, God help us

gun duel? police and students? something is not right when students turn boko- haram,armed robbers or Fulani herdsmen?

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ameezy:

What's funny here for showing your big teeth. Extra judicial killing is a joke to you? SMH

RIP to the dead.