TASUEDITES EXCAPED DEATH, SEVERAL INJURED, ONE DEAD

.                                          TASUEDITES EXCAPED DEATH, SEVERAL INJURED, ONE DEAD

It was a great loss for students  Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) Ogun state as a student , identified as Fashina Olatunji, aka TJ  400 Level Health Education student was sent to his early grave, leaving many of them seriously injured.
We gathered that the students of TASUED who were conveyed in a 18-seater bus were on their way to Abeokuka, the Ogun state capital  to continue their peaceful protest against the recent  scrapping  of their university by the state government when  the front tyre of one of their buses suddenly  burst and veered  off  the road thereby somersaulting several times on Kobape road, along Abeokuta/Sagamu Expressway in Obafemi Owode local Government area of Ogun  State
Immediately  the students were rushed to Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, students as identified as Oyewole Moshood, 400 level Telecommunication, the Student Union Government (SUG) Vice President Olayemi Alaka,  300 level student of Mass Communication, Fashina Olatunji (Humble TJ), 400 level, Health Education, were in  a state of coma, but after a while  Fashina Olatinji gave up the ghost
The president of the Student Union, Comrade Oyekanmi Abdullahi, described the incident as unfortunate, saying the students were on their way to meet and plead with  Governor Ibikunle Amosun, the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Olatokunbo Olopade and the state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr Segun Odubela, to rescind the decision that scrapped the University
Last week after the decision was made by the government students of TASUED said if the decision of the government is not reverse the will have no choice but to OCCUPY. The angry students of Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), has also shut down the State Secretariat, Abeokuta. Miffed by the accident, other students stormed the State Secretariat, located at Oke-Mosan, chanting anti-Amosun slogans and disrupting activities.

Armed with placards bearing various inscriptions, the protesters barricaded one of the entrance gates to the secretariat and prevented visitors and motorists who had business to transact at the place.
As the students intensified their choruses against the government, Speaker of the House of Assembly, Suraj Adekunbi, walked down to the protesters in company with the Commissioner of Police, Nicholas Nkemdeme, to address them.

Adekunbi urged the students to remain calm, saying the government decision on TASUED was taken in the best interest of the state.

He advised the students to embrace dialogue, stressing that their grievances cannot be resolved through violence.
It was indeed a great loss, and for those still in the hospital we pray for their quick recovery and pray not to witness such again,