OOU Students Go On Rampage, Destroy Property After Police Shooting

Angry students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) are staging a violent protest, demanding a downwards review of their school fees.

The student have blocked the Presidential Boulevard which leads to Ogun state Governor Ibikunle Amosun's office, insisting that they will only leave after an address by the number one citizen.

Student Pulse gathered that the protest, coming just days after the Ogun state Amosun, announced an across board reduction in tuition fees of all state owned tertiary institutions, went violent after soldiers allegedly fired at them.

The tear-gassing angered the students who started destroying public properties, including cars.

Amosun had on Tuesday approved a new tuition fee regime, effective from the 2014/2015 academic but the students have reservation about the 'reduction'.

One faction of students want the new regime to start from the 2013/2014 session, arguing that any fee above N50,000 was still too high while some are satisfied with the reduction.

The discord among the students of various institutions in Ogun led to violence on Tuesday, with a number of students left injured.

It will be recalled that Lagos State University (LASU) students rejected Governor Babatunde Fashola’s tuition fee reduction, eventually forcing him to to totally revert to the old school fees after a 3-year struggle.