STUDENTS in Ekiti State are gearing for a showdown following their anger that two students of Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado Ekiti were allegedly killed by a vehicle when officials of the state’s internal revenue service were enforcing tax collection.
The students under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), said in a statement on
Monday that the Ekiti State government and the police authorities should produce the killers of the two students, saying they were knocked down by vehicle when officials of the Internal Revenue Board were enforcing tax collection.
In the statement signed by the Secretary, NANS Zone D, Mr Olanrewaju Oloja, the students said the victims, Taiwo Adekunle and Kingsley Effiong of the Department of Accounting and Department of Environmental Management respectively, were killed at Ado-Iworoko road last week while waiting by the road for transport to convey them to school.
According to NAN, the deceased students were waiting beside the road when a car veered off the road and overran them in an attempt to dodge the road block mounted by the government officials who were collecting tax from motorists.
“The security operatives in the state must fish out the perpetrators of this act and arrest them for prosecution in line with Section 07 of the criminal code.
“While we appreciate the EKSU management for its action to save the lives of the victims before they finally gave up the ghost, we issue a seven-day ultimatum for the internal revenue board to produce these thugs who were carrying out their duties in a brutish fashion.”
NANS said aside prosecuting the alleged perpetrators of the crime; it demanded compensations for the victims’ families to alleviate their sufferings.
The students’ body also calls for immediate reduction of tuition fees in EKSU, disclosing that students in the Faculties of Health Sciences and Law now pay as high as N300, 000.00.
The students’ leaders called on Governor Ayodele Fayose to probe into the allegation of reckless levying of frivolous fees on students, in line with his electioneering campaign to make lives affordable for the teeming students of the state-owned university.
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