Military personnel have dispersed students of various universities in Ondo State who are protesting the prolonged strike of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The soldiers were said to have opened fire, shooting live billets to disperse the students stationed at Ilesha/Akure highway on Tuesday.
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The students who were drawn from 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 federal government o the matter with ASUU had converged at the FUTA North Gate and Roadblock where they blocked the road to register their grievances.
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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.
Watch some videos of the incident below;
Nigeria soldiers scattered and dispersed protesting students in Akure the ondo state capital, shooting sporadically. #nansondo #asuuprotests. pic.twitter.com/46Rrqhd0q0
— OLUWADEMILADE (@FIZZYJFONSAY) May 17, 2022
#NigMilitary just disrupts and scatters Nig Students Peaceful protest @ Akure, Ondo State. Nothing will stop Nig Students from lend their voices against this prolonged indefinite ASUU strike on Nig Varsity Education. @MBuhari and @ProfOsinbajo #EndASUUStrikeNow pic.twitter.com/l7nA2dBUR6
— NANS (@nansngr) May 17, 2022
Nigerian Army disrupted the peaceful protest going on in Akure,Ondo state. organized by Ondo state students
This is uncalled-for 😔#Akureprotest #ASUU #ASUUStrike #EndASUUStrikeNow pic.twitter.com/WFjEpWsaMS
— Balogun of FUTA (@Teebamzy1) May 17, 2022
This is more clearer we can see as Nigerian army scattered the ongoing peaceful protest in Akure, ondo state. @HQNigerianArmy can’t we have a peaceful protest in our country anymore? #Akureprotest #ASUU #ASUUStrike #EndASUUStrikeNow
Kano/Arsenal/Katsina/@AkureHowFar pic.twitter.com/kxy3cjPTlB— Balogun of FUTA (@Teebamzy1) May 17, 2022
Soldiers disrupting peaceful ASUU strike protest in Akure, Ondo state. pic.twitter.com/F0nSxvair6
— #EndASUUStrike (@DanielBoluODB) May 17, 2022
