Yabatech Students Protest Death Of Colleague

Following the death of a Final year student at the Yaba college of education,The students of the institution had staged a peaceful protest within the campus yesterday afternoon, to express their displeasure with the latest development, which many of them confessed had been a usual practice in the institution for quite some time now.The aggrieved students, whose campus in Akoka area of Yaba was shut during the period the protest lasted, said the institution’s management deliberately deprived them of students’ unionism, a situation which has led to high handedness and victimisation of those who dared to speak.According to sources the victim was in pains and had pleaded with the medics not to allow her die but her pleas fell on deaf ears as she gave up the ghost at about 4.00pm this morning.
A visit to the medical centre showed that the workers were either hiding for fear of being maimed, stoned or killed, or had quickly found their ways out of the institution before the arrival of the visibly angry students.In their bid to leave and enter the school premises during the protest, the students were forced to jump over the second gates as the main gates had been locked, reportedly on the orders of the students’ leaders.

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