UNIOSUN Students Take to the Streets in Protest Police Shooting.

Students of the Osun State University, Osogbo,  have taken to the streets begrudged at the Saturday shooting by members of the Police force at some of their students. The protesting students set fire to tyres on major streets and disrupted pedestrian and motor traffic within Osogbo metropolis.

“We were playing football when the policemen came. They always come like that to arrest students.

“They would say that we are involved in Yahoo-Yahoo (internet fraud) and they would seize our laptops and phones.

“They would collect money on the pretext of granting us bail. But we resisted them on this occasion and within a twinkle of an eye, the policemen started shooting.

“When the policemen started shooting, we ran away but the bullets hit two students who were immediately rushed to hospital.

“The bullet hit one in the stomach and the second one in his mouth,’’ he said.