it all started when an ND 2 Accountancy department student was knocked down and killed by a vehicle on Tuesday.
The aggrieved students, on Wednesday, blocking the main way 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 started by teargassing the environment 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 now 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 a near by 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 said
The Registrar of the Polytechnic, Labani Joseph, said that the management had earlier appealed to the students to stop the 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.
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 fires when the students and security met!
The Registrar, however, pronounced that, the school has been closed down indefinitely as a result of the crises.
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