Four injured as students clash in Ogun Four students were injured on Thursday as two factions of students from various state-owned tertiary institutions clashed in Abeokuta over the recent reduction of
school fees announced by the state government on Tuesday.
The fracas happened around Federal Secretariat, Oke Mosan, about 100 metres away from the governor’s office.

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The students who were from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Gateway Polytechnic, Igbesa, and other ICT
polytechnics in the state broke into two factions, and they engaged each other in physical assault.The pro-Amosun faction had staged a
solidarity march from Kuto Roundabout to the governor’s office at Oke Mosan to thank him for reducing the school fees, which was 61 per cent accross board. This faction, was received at the arcade
ground by the state commissioner for education, Mr. Olusegun Odubela, deputy speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr.
Tola Banjo and Special Assistant to the governor on Student affairs, Mr. Olusegun Clement.

They were armed with placards which eulogised the governor, Senator IbikunleAmosun.Odubela, who also eulogised the students
for appreciating Senator Ibikunle Amosun’s gesture, advised them to take their studies seriously, and that he would deliver their message to the governor who was in Abuja. But the second faction did not see
anything good in the fee reduction, as they saw it more as a mere ‘political gimmick’.

This faction led by the Students Union Government President, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Olusegun Ifade,argued that the said fee reduction should have taken effect from 2013/2014 session,
and not the 2014/2015 session announced by the state government.
This faction had earlier addressed journalists at Iwe Irohin House, Oke Ilewo in Abeokuta.Ifade said they had made demand for fee
reduction since 2011,which the governor failed to yield to.
The students leader vehemently opposed the gesture, arguing it was greek gift coming at a wrong time, “because election
is fast approaching.”Some of the students were armed with placards with various inscriptions, some of which read: ‘No reduction in 2013/2014, no vote’,’Amosun reduce our school
fees’,’SIA must obey now’,and ‘Bring down our fees.’

They also demanded among others further reduction of the fees, as they argued that any fee above N50,000 was still too high.The students also headed for the governor’s office, and on the way they ran into the other faction, where a free-for-all
ensued.

After the dust settled, four of the students had been injured, as they were said to have hurled stones and other dangerous
objects at one another.This led to a gridlock along the Oke Mosan-
Kuto axis for some hours.

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