Kwara Poly students barricade roads to protest police ‘shooting’ of colleague

Students of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, yesterday barricaded the ever-busy Muritala Mohammed Way, protesting alleged police shooting of their colleague.

The protesters made bonfires on the highway, thereby obstructing vehicular movement.
A police escort attached to a bullion van owned by a bank was said to have fired a shot at a taxi cab which hit the student in the leg.

The incident reportedly occurred at 2.10pm.
As the news of the shooting broke into the polytechnic’s campus, the students were said to have trooped out.

The protest lasted about one and a half hours.
The students threw the popular Muritala Mohammed Way, Post Office area and adjoining streets into pandemonium.

Addressing reporters on the incident, a student, who gave his name as Abodunrin John, said: “The student was alighting from a taxi cab when the policeman in the bullion van, belonging to one of the foremost banks, aimed at the tyre of the cab.

“Unfortunately for the student, Ahmed Dayo, a National Diploma (ND1) student in the Department of Accounting, instead of the bullet to destroy the tyre, it went straight to hit him and destroyed his leg beyond repair.”

It was learnt that the driver of the bullion van sped away, apparently to escape the angry students.

The Nation