Funaab Protest today: What actually caused the
protest and the protest itself.
We are sure you heard about a lecturer, well the
lecturer involved is a lecturer and a proffesor in
Holar Holar's department. The lecturer was
actually accosted by some trace personnel who
removed his plate no from his car. The Don stood
at the spot trying to negotitiate with them when
they tried to zoom off and stepped on the Profs
legs with there tyre so out of anger he broke the
glass of the trace vehicle which led them to the
police stattion. The prof called assu chairman and
the ASUU chairman called HOLAR HOLAR to come
the prof's aid because he knew the relationship
the student union has built with the police DPO
obantoko in the time past.
It would be good to note that, FunaabSU last year
built toilets for this same police station close to
Fajol Obantoko and also donated Bullet proofs for
them.
FunaabSU President went there with a member of
the student union to plead on the Profs behalf.
Upon getting there he saw a police man rough
handling the prof and he intervened to rescue him
from one sergent boye. While trying to do that, he
was bounced upon by the police, beaten
mercilessly and detained with the Prof and 2 other
lecturers.
The SUG President was accused of being the Head
cultist in Funaab and the DPO said "he had been
looking for him for a very Kong time in Funaab".
Holar Holar even tried to apologize to them, which
fell to deaf ears. At a time he was dehydrated and
close to fainting he begged them for water, he
was denied of water and was told by the DPO " if
we are to give you water here, we will poison
you".
Student went to protest after hearing what
happened, but they thrown Teargas, they even
threatened to use grenade on them.
It was until the National President of the
National Association of Nigerian Students(NANS)
called to threaten the DPO that Holar Holar was
released.
This led to the protest this morning, which
started around 7am. The SUG used the Students
Union Bus to block the Federal road at camp. No
vehicular movements were allowed. The SUG
President addressed the students and told them
what he faced at the police station at the hands
of the policemen. The SUG asked for apology from
the Commissioner of Police Ogun State m
The PPRO(Police PRO) of Ogun state command,
after talking with some of the SUG Excos, was
allowed to address the students. He explained
that Ogun state Headquarters(Elewe Eran) just
heard about the way they maltreated FunaabSU
President and that he was surprised that such
would happen, since it was Funaab that built the
Police station close to Fajol "Police Post" (where
our SUG President was maltreated). He said he
had apologised to the SUG Excos and he would also
apologize to Funaab students. With a Fatherly
smile he said "On behalf of the Commissioner of
Police and over 8,000 police personnel in Ogun
state, we apologize for what happened yesterday
and such would never happen again and the
incident will be investigated. Students replied
with "nooo", some sections of the crowd said "
What are you investigating again, we know who is
guilty ".
About an hour into the protest, the SUG President
tried to move the students to the Mancot Park to
continue the protest and that students should
leave the Federal road, some students followed
him, while Majority stayed at camp junction and
prevented any vehicular movement, which
according to what we heard crippled traffic flow
as far as Moore Junction, close to Abiola way. The
only vehicles that were allowed to move was that
of the Funaab staff school Mancot (Primary school
students of Funaab) and that of Some soldiers who
begged and pleaded for understanding.
The Protest was stopped at exactly 10am(over 3
hours) as earlier stated in a memo circulated
online by the SUG PRO. FunaabSU and Funaab
students made sure their grievances were heard
and that Funaabites shouldn't been taken for
granted. TRACE Ogun State has also been asked
not to come near Funaab, as they were the cause
of the incident that happened.
Article by Funaab Juice.