Some pupils of two secondary schools in the Meiran area of Lagos reportedly clashed on Friday after closing time, resulting in injuries on both sides.

Sunday PUNCH learnt that the warring pupils destroyed about three vehicles parked at the scene of the clash on Imulokanle Street, Meiran.

It was gathered that some residents had to summon up courage to disperse the teenagers, who reportedly wielded cutlasses, knives, axes, bottles and other weapons.

A resident of the area, who identified himself only as Babatunde, told our correspondent that one of the pupils apprehended by the residents was handed over to the police.

He said the student told the police that he is from a school in Mulero, a neighbouring community, and was invited by one of the factions for assistance in the fight.

Babatunde stated, “After closing time on Friday, pupils from the two schools were coming from different directions and met at Imulokanle junction. They were brandishing cutlasses, axes, knives, bottles and other weapons and they started attacking one another. They were more than 200. Many of them were injured. They also destroyed property. They vandalised three vehicles and even wanted to enter houses. Some residents rose against them and chased them away. It was a terrible situation; small children for that matter.”

He said after dispersing the pupils, some residents reported the case at the Meiran Police Station but they were asked to pay N5,000 for mobilisation to the scene.



Babatunde added, “One of the landlords had to call the DPO (Divisional Police Officer) before some policemen came here. They just looked around and left. A pupil they arrested said he was invited from a school in Mulero by one of the factions. If I had packed my car on the street, they would have destroyed it too.”

Another resident, Salami Adedeji, said the factional pupils had been at loggerheads for about two weeks over what he described as a suspected cult war.


He said, “They usually fight on Fridays after closing from school. They smashed bottles on the street. Nobody knew what actually led to the clash but it appeared to be a cult clash.

“As we were trying to stop them, they started throwing stones and bottles and destroyed some vehicles in the process. We recovered some weapons from them and took them to the police station.

“Surprisingly, the policemen we met asked us to pay N5,000 before they could act on the matter. Aside from the boy that was arrested, I learnt one pupil was admitted in a hospital.”

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, who confirmed the clash, said operatives were promptly deployed in the area and normalcy was restored, adding that two vehicles were damaged and one suspect arrested.

He said the claim that N5,000 was demanded from the residents at the station “is not true; it is falsehood.”

Source: https://punchng.com/Many-injured-vehicles-destroyed-as-rival-Lagos-schoolboys-clash

Before ajebutters will come and start asking what the world is turning into, biko calm down and realise that we ajekpakos are used to inter-secondary school fights.

The only worrisome angle is the cult dimension






Life sentence for all scammers . . . Including paternity fraudsters!

That claim is a universal truth

Late 90s, early 2000s witnessed the surge in intersec school clashes.

Whenever there is a football match between my school and one other school, you never bring down your bag and your always watchful about the people surrounding you in case you want to make your move

You also avoid each other's girls because una must to fight for road if her School children are on the road at that point

school children and school fights no be new thing bcoz av experience dm countless times bk then in ajegunle, tolu complex gat so any public schools within and school fights dey happen mostly on Fridays..
the only difference here is that cultism av been introduced in it..

useless

Sad indeed

Bobo Chicago's legacy

Amaechi 2023!! Say not to cultism and Godfatherism.that elevates cultists and thugs like MC Oluomo to celebrities while your intellectuals larvish away

So no to dictatorship style democracy where you only progress if you arse lick a cocaine lover

Amaechi will set things right. He is loved in the north ,the south the east no one cares if they love him or not in the west

Call a spade a spade, they’re Tinubu’s boys

Wawu

Things will only get worse, as poverty tightens it’s noose around the neck of Nigerians.

Agberoism

Let them enjoy their youthful days... No b everyone go gentle

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If you live in a society where footballers are heroes, little children want to be footballers...
If you live in a society where scientists are heroes, little children dream to be scientists....
If you live in a society like Palestine where terrorists are seen as heroes, little children want to be heroes by throwing stones at the Israeli borders...
In Lagos, touts, agberos, NURTW, MC Oluomo nd his boys were made heroes by Tinubu, now every boy in Lagos wants to grow up to be like agbero, hence entering cult from primary school is a normal thing.

And this same Tinubu is aspiring to lead Nigeria, Olorun maje....

misplaced priority

Hmm

Cultism is a menace to society.

Hungry police, i’m sure they asked for money

One of the fastest way to reach your maker in the great beyond, is by being a cultist.

The only thing I want you people to read about this matter the (The Police Issues)

These are worrying times.

End Time Youths everywhere.

The Future of Yoruba Nation is in shambles.

Yoruba Ronu.

It's either they are street urchins or ritualists. Nawao

cult in secondary school, na wa o...

Bad parenting.

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Naija which way,wetin dey play?

southsouthking:
Bad parenting.

Not all the time: some kids no matter how good you train them, they will still end up wayward. May we not be blessed with such untrainable kids. Lest we forget!!! Poverty is a major factor in this dynamics...as I said earlier we need to enforce laws. There should be a stiff penalty for such a act. People need to start going to jail a lot. If you can do the crime then you can do the time

Very bad