-Authorities Order School Shut
THE Ila Orogun-based College of Education has been ordered shut this Thursday, following violent students’ protests triggered by the death of two students who met their demise as a result of the “negligent conduct of the government.”
“The government of Osun State has very little time to attend to the business of good governance, and courts avoidable controversy by dabbling into issues that has no remote connection with its immediate domain and citizens,” alleged some of the protesting students who their late colleagues died because the locality was plagued into three weeks of darkness and failure of authorities to signpost roadside construction supplies, which they alleged was the cause of the accident that killed the two students who road in the back of commercial motor bike on Monday night.”
The dead students on the commercial motorcycle had ran into a heap of gravel meant for road construction by the local government council.
The students argued that the accident occurred as a result of negligence on the part of the government and its agents.
A student who pleaded anonymity also blamed the council for the incident, calling for immediate intervention by the State Government.
‘’The council is not sensitive at all and the executive secretary of the council does not seem to know his onions; how can you endanger people’s lives in the name of construction?
‘’The council was not bothered about the total darkness in the town, the FRSC is not doing its work and this eventually turned the road town to a death trap.
‘’The State Government must do something as a matter of urgency to address these issues to prevent re-occurrence of such ugly events in the future,’’ he stated.
Effort to speak with the Executive Secretary of the Council, Mr. Segun Awotunde, proved abortive as the council secretariat was deserted. Efforts to reach him by phone were also unsuccessful.