Policemen on Tuesday chased away hundreds of Lagos State University, LASU, students who were protesting the hike in school fees at the Lagos Governor’s Office with teargas and guns. The students had come to the governor’s office on Tuesday afternoon with three BRT buses and occupied the entrance leading to Governor Babatunde Fashola’s Office despite the entrance leading to the office being barricaded by policemen attached to the Rapid Response Squad, RRS.
They sang anti-Fashola songs for several minutes before the police swooped on them following an order by the RRS Commander, Hakeem Odumosu who told his men to arrest and disperse the protesting students. The policemen shot sporadically into the air and released teargas right in front of the Governor’s office, an action that made the students scamper in different directions, leaving some injured and requiring medical attention.
The policemen chased the students unto the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway until they hurriedly crossed the expressway and pitched their tent at the Magodo Gate. Other students who had run in different directions returned to join them at the Gate. Read more pmnewsnigeria.com
