Emerging report reaching Page 36 from Daily Post on Tuesday, indicates that Nigerian Military Operatives have fired live ammunition to chase away the protesting Students of various Universities in Ondo State, who are calling for an end of the prolonged strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
The Soldiers were said to have opened fire to chase the Students away from the Ilesha/Akure highway.
The Students who were drawn from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, AAUA, and Olusegun Agagu University of Technology, Okitipupa, OAUSTECH, had since on Monday, barricaded the highway, disrupting vehicular movement.
The protesting Students who bemoaned the attitude of the President Muhammadu Buhari Federal Government on the matter with ASUU, had converged on the FUTA North Gate and Roadblock, where they blocked the road to register their grievances.
It was gathered that the Soldiers who were not from the 32 Artillery Brigade in the State, were on transit, when they were barred from passing through the highway, at the Roadblock axis of the road, by the protesting Students.
According to some of the Students who scampered for safety, the Soldiers who were coming from the Ilesha end of the road, descended on the Students and destroyed their belongings.
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