An Ogun state secondary school student has reportedly drowned while fleeing from being arrested by the local security, Amotekun corpsThe students were reportedly protesting against an alleged illegal fee being collected by the school, prompting management to call the AmotekunThey run in separate ways, and some of them reportedly jumped into the nearby river to avoid being apprehended by the Amotekun corp,s and one of them drownedA grave incident has happened in Ogun, as one student reportedly died and property was destroyed following a violent eruption at the Ilugun High School, Elega of Abeokuta, the state capital.
The violent incident was a result of the alleged illegal fee being collected by the teachers, and the trouble reportedly started on Friday, September 28.
Ogun student drown, dies during protest / Photo Credit: @DapoAbiodunCON
Source: TwitterDaily Trust reported that the school management had invited the operatives of the Amotekun Corps in a move to disperse the protesting students against the fee they considered illegal.
Witnesses accounted that the emergence of the Amotekun corps made the students run in different directions so that the local security operatives would not apprehend them.
During the process, some of the students were said to have jumped into the river near the school, in which one of them drowned and died.
A witness disclosed that three students were said to have jumped into the river. Two of them were rescued, and the one identified as Babalola drowned. Later, his remains were recovered and buried at the riverbank on Saturday, September 27.
Babalola’s death led to anger among the students who returned to the school on Monday, September 28 and went on a rampage. They were alleged to have attacked the teachers and vandalised school property.
A trending video of the incident on social media showed the moment the students were destroying the school property in broad daylight. Some of the students were seen hurling stones at classroom windows
In other instances, some students went on to remove the entire aluminium window frames and left the classrooms badly damaged.
Controversy over the illegal fee
Recall that in September 2019, Governor Dapo Abiodun announced the suspension of N3,700 levies across public schools in the state with immediate effect.
Recently, the administration of Abiodun has been criticised over the fee. At an event, the governor clarified that his administration did not introduce the fee but inherited it from the previous administration.
The governor explained that the fee came into existence as a proposal from the Parents Teachers’ Association (PTA), and was later adopted by the immediate past administration, led by Ibikunle Amosun.
He noted that the suspension of the payment became necessary as part of his government’s promise of free, universal and qualitative education in the state’s primary and secondary schools.
Source: Legit.ng
