Chief Audu Ogbeh |
The Federal
Government (FG) has yesterday sent out its fresh team to the College of Agriculture (FCA),
Moorplantation, Ibadan to
put under control the violent activities that has led to halting people and
destruction of properties of the school and individuals. All this happened
during a peaceful demonstration that turned to be violent due to the policemen
approach.
Food farm news correspondent reliably gathered that
the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) officials
will return today to FCA after an emergency meeting held yesterday between the
management and the labour union of the same ministry based on violent break
down of law and orders in the college.
Until this
week Monday gory violence between the students and the policemen, last week,
the FMARD officials were at the college promising to release the outcome of
their finding in two weeks’ time which is expected to lapse next Wednesday 29th,
November.
Another team
has yesterday left for the college that will arrive Ibadan today. A source who
was a part of the meeting confirmed that the FG was already aware of the gory
incident, and has sent out a team, who are already on their way to the college
for further investigations as regards the conflict that has degenerated to
maiming of human beings and destruction of properties by the students and
policemen engagement.
Our source
pointed that a team just returned last week from fact findings through the
questionings of both the college management and the staff union, adding that
the two parties had come to an agreement of allowing peace, while the provost
was warned not to ever involve the policemen again in any matter of the school.
“It is a great a great surprise to see that the issue on ground had resulted
into violence of this magnitude”
However, the
latest development yesterday at the college has revealed by our source was that
more damages are being carried out in the college by the students who are
grieved at the non-release of arrested five students by the policemen and
non-appearance of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry as promised on
Monday.
According to
our anonymous source “sir thing are really getting out of control now.
Information reaching me now has it that our students have destroyed and broken
all the glass louvers in our administration building our college. The reason
according to them was that the police have refused to release the arrested five
students yesterday. What I heard this morning was that the Permanent Secretary
had called the Provost to secure their release, but they said the man has not
shown up since despite several calls from the students. They claimed that the
police are torturing the five students and they want to charge them to court
tomorrow”
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