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FEAR GRIPS RESIDENTS OF IKOTUN OVER THE CONTINUOUS FIGHTS BETWEEN IKOTUN TECHNICAL COLLEGE AND IKOTUN COMMUNITY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL,ASSUME FURTHER CALAMITY IF...

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By Tajudeen Bello

At about 3pm, Thursday the 8th of July 2021, people around Ikotun area placed a distress call to VONN editor as they expressed fear over the fights between Ikotun High School students and Technical College students which has led to the incident involving break down of law and order.

VONN correspondent learnt that, a teacher and scores of students were injured during the fight and has been medically attended to. A teacher who had remained anonymous told the reporter that, they are also scared and if drastic measures aren't taken the fights will continue and might lead to fatalities. He mentioned that the first measure taken by the school is making the final year students of the school come along with their guardian to sign an undertaken to this effect never to cause the breach of public peace or create menace in the school environment.

During a conversation with the teacher, the reporter was able to find out that the result of these constant fights and disruption of public peace is usually because of girlfriend issues between students from both schools. This fights are threatening to those who moves about their daily activities, those who sells and lives around that area, as the students makes use of stones and other dangerous weapons when any of this fights occurs thereby making people scamper for safety.

A seller who owns a shop around that vicinity told our correspondent that parents has a vital role to play in the upbringing of their children not to become a menace to the society while another called on His Excellency Babajide Sanwolu, the Governor of Lagos state to step into the matter and help find a lasting solution to this or this may cause more mayhem if nothing is done.

The residents also expressed their pains as they referred to the Ikotun police division who's a block away from the location where all this happens and never shows up until the fight is over.