- Student Protest Update OOU campuses across the state will
be shut down from Monday next week as OOU ASUU joined
the protesting students. The school will be shut down and it's
gates locked once the ongoing UTME in the school is concluded
this weekend. I was on the phone with few of the students
minutes ago and they gave me details on the attack on them by
Clement, the new SA to Amosun on student affairs. Okikiola
from Mapoly led his gangs from Mapoly to attack the
protesting students around MKO Abiola Stadium. As you are
reading this, two students has been hospitalized with various
degrees of injuries. Ogun State Education is seriously
collapsing and if anything happen to any student in a Ogun
state, Gov Amosun must be held responsible. aluta continua

Ogun seem to be boiling these days.

OOU STUDENTS PROTEST AT OKE-IMOSAN, SLEEP
AT ABEOKUTA: THE REAL STORY
So many stories have permeated social media on
the issues surrounding the protest of students of
Olabisi Onabanjo University at the Office of the
Ogun state governor today. Some have said it is a
politically-motivated protest, others said opposition
has paid students to protest. Others are even
asking why students have to protest after the
government announced a reduction; what is their
problem, they ask? I will lay the issues bare now.
For more than 2 months now, OOU students have
been asking Governor Amosun to effect a reduction
in the astronomical fees being paid. Series of
meetings have been held, but the Governor
remained adamant. Then suddenly out of the blue,
he's interested in the reduction, but he said he
would effect a general reduction. OOU student
leaders said NO. How can you say you will effect a
60% reduction in the fees been paid in all tertiary
institutions in Ogun state when they don't all pay
the same fees? How can you treat schools that pay
70, 000 on the same pedestal as an OOU that pays
more than 200, 000? We said NO. We aren't asking
you not to effect a political reduction, but do not
expect us to settle for anything that is above our
demands. We made it clear we wanted to pay 50,
000 and not a dime more.
The Governor went on air to announce his own
reduction and went further to say it would only
take effect beginning from next session; after the
2015 elections? What does he take us for? Fools? In
2011, he promised a 50% reduction if he was
elected, but only implemented a 10% reduction
when he was elected? Does he think we will fall
prey to his deceitful antics again?
This morning (Thursday), we mobilised en masse,
more than 3000 students came out to be
transported to Abeokuta for the protest. But
transportation challenges meant only about 1500
students could go to abeokuta. Money was an issue
too, but rather that visit any opposition politician,
we stood in front of our school and pleaded with
motorists to support our struggle. By collecting 100
naira, we successfully gathered more than 25, 000
to transport our students. We never took money
from any politician; anyone that says otherwise is a
liar and has ulterior motives.
Meanwhile, before we left Ago-Iwoye, we got wind
that the S.A to Governor Amosun on Student
Matters, Comeraid Clement Olusegun had mobilised
cultists to attack us at the Governor's office. They
nade true the threat few hours later when the cult
boys attacked our students in front of the
Governor's office. The mobile policemen were there
but didn't intervene; they simply looked on
laughing. They broke the head of the President
Elect of the Faculty of Social and Management
Sciences, Omo akin and wonded others. Our
students who were caught unawares mobilised
back and fought the attackers who were trying to
cart away their valuables too and siezed one of
their Id cards. The clash and our self-defence left
some of our students receiving treatment and one
of theirs in a coma. Thereafter, they retreated.
As the day wore on, we were determined to sleep in
front of the Governor's office until he answered us.
But we got even more information that they were
mobilising more cultists to strike us in the cover of
the night. The policemen in front of the Governor's
office had been directed to withdraw so that the
cultists could strike. To avoid more casualties
occuring in the night attack, we had an option of
either moving back to Ago or risk spending the
night there.
We tried to get the NLC compound and spend the
night there, but we couldn't use the place. We had
to move down to the State Secretariat of the
Committee for the Defence of Human Rights
(CDHR), Ogun state. More than 2000 students are
in the place. Students contributed and those who
have houses in abeokuta went to bring pots and
coal pot for cooking. We are cooking rice now.
Tomorrow morning, we will resume at Governor
Amosun's office. We are not here to play with him.
Disregard the news circulating that we are in
Abeokuta to thank Governor Amosun; we are not!
We are here to ask for the real reduction we asked
for and to tell him it must be implemented this
session.
We are currently opposite CDHR secretariat at Rev.
Kuti in Kuto where students have renamed ALUTA
CAMP. Gyrations are ongoing. Students are in high
spirits. It will take more than sponsored thugs and
political propaganda to stop

Djswaggs:
- Student Protest Update OOU campuses across the state will
be shut down from Monday next week as OOU ASUU joined
the protesting students. The school will be shut down and it's
gates locked once the ongoing UTME in the school is concluded
this weekend. I was on the phone with few of the students
minutes ago and they gave me details on the attack on them by
Clement, the new SA to Amosun on student affairs. Okikiola
from Mapoly led his gangs from Mapoly to attack the
protesting students around MKO Abiola Stadium. As you are
reading this, two students has been hospitalized with various
degrees of injuries. Ogun State Education is seriously
collapsing and if anything happen to any student in a Ogun
state, Gov Amosun must be held responsible. aluta continua

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Sanusi Ovianu Yas
Vanguard diz iz a simple issue which does nt
require fighting,we are all student nd its only a
thief dat cn catch a thief,get a motivational
speaker out of our students and let him or her talk
sense into Mapoly students head nd dey will join
us in the protest too,let them know dat there is no
gain in standing against ur fellow student nd
supporting the government,they should remember
that we are all tomorrows leader,diz is no time for
cult war or crisis,all the colors should come out nd
stand as 1 so we can all get wot we want,get a big
speaker nd micro fone talk to Mapoly student plus
rasing ur voices,out voices against Bad
Government nd false Promises,let governor know
that by the blood of we oou student he will never
be the Governor by 2015,and someone should link
me to the SUG president,I have an
idea.08135165319

The market women in sagamu helped us with N5000 for transport yesterday morning. Gov Amosun doesn't know who he's messing with, we are even worse than the LASU students. We are ready to die on the streets of Oke-mosan.


On the mapoly students coming to disturb the protest, i have no words..


ALUTA CONTINUA.. Victoria Ascerta..

#LongLiveOOU #SaveOOU #ReduceOurFees #Oke-Imosan2014

Reports reaching us now says James Ogunjimi and the SUG president have been arrested.



We won't stop! He should arrest all of us!!!


Fynestboi.. FP plssss

This is becoming serious. As students continue their protest today the police have fired tear gas to disperse
protesting students of the Ogun State University,
OOU, Ago Iwoye.


It was learnt that the students, who were
initially embarking on a peaceful protest, turned
violent after the teargas and damaged some public
property.
The students had as early as 6:30 a.m. continued
their protest that they commenced on Thursday.
The students, Friday morning, occupied the
Presidential boulevard, the route leading to the
office of Governor Ibikunle Amosun.
They said they would not let the governor, who
was yet to arrive the scene, get to his office unless
he addressed their demands.
The OOU students have demanded a further
reduction of their school fees, after the governor
announced a reduction earlier in the week. They
also want the reduction to commence from the
current academic session and not the next as
proposed by the state government.
Over 100 policemen were seen at the venue of the
protest on Friday morning before the dispersal.
The protesting students seized a mass transit bus
belonging to the state government and forced a
security vehicle filled with soldiers from the scene.
They told the soldiers to go look for the kidnapped
Chibok girls rather than prevent their protest from
holding.
The development caused gridlock on the dual
carriage road as many motorists had to make
detour. Several civil servants working in the
governor’s office were forced to return home
following the blockade of the road.
The students had commenced the protest on
Thursday and camped at Rev Kuti Secondary
School in Abeokuta for the night. They continued
the protest at about 6:30 a.m. on Friday.
The President of the univeristy’s Students Union
Government, Olusegun Ifade, who addressed his
colleagues had promised that the protest would be
peaceful as they would avoid clashed with security
operatives.
‘Let us conduct the protest in peaceful manner,but
we have occupied this road for now until the
governor attends to our demands. We are not
leaving here,” he said.
The protesters had on Thursday had a brief clash
with rival students of the Moshood Abiola
Polytechnic who came to declare support for the
governor. The security officials present looked
away while the clash occurred.
The Ogun Police Commissioner, Ikemefuna Okoye,
later arrived to address the protesting students
asking them to conduct a peaceful protest.