Protest in Ibadan Over Killing of Student Going to Write WAEC Examination
By: Olufemi Orunsola
Reports reaching our news desk at OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA (OTN) News have it that some youths in Ibadan, on Tuesday, protested at Oyo State Government Secretariat over the killing of a student by a stray bullet reportedly fired by a policeman.
OTN News gathered that the student, said to be writing the ongoing West African Examinations Council (WAEC), was hit by the stay bullet around Gbagi market road in the early hours of Tuesday.
It was gathered that the student was on his way to write the examination in company with his sibling and father when the stray bullet reportedly fired by a police officer who was pursuing a suspect, hit him.
The victim, who was immediately rushed to Welfare Hospital, was pronounced dead on arrival.
Following the sad incident, some youths, angered by the development, proceeded to the Oyo State Government Secretariat, Agodi, to protest against the killing of the student.
The protesters, OTN News further gathered, took the student’s lifeless body with them to the Oyo State Government Secretariat, calling fir Governor Seyi Makinde's intervention.
Meanwhile, the President of Save the Poor and Needy Charity Initiative (SPANCI), Comrade Yemi Ezekiel Bello has condemned the killing.
Bello urged the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to investigate the matter.
He said, "Dear IGP and stakeholders, kindly investigate the above case as allegedly reported that a man was taking his children to school this morning and some alleged police officers and OYRTMA, while casing Yahoo boys, and others said while chasing traffic law offenders, started shooting indiscriminately and bullet hit this little boy and killed him.
“According to the report, it was confirmed that the officers conducted themselves in an unprofessional manner in led to the death of this little boy whose father said he has been taking care of them and refused to remarry since their mother left 7 years ago.”
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