Correspondents gathered that the students had taken over the Akure-Ilesa highway, protesting peacefully against the ASUU strike when the soldiers invaded the area and started shooting indiscriminately.
Some Nigerian Army personnel on Tuesday the 16th of May, 2022 harassed and shot at students who were protesting peacefully against the ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Akure.
Their lecturers have been on strike since the 14th of February, 2022.
The soldiers, according to a video seen by correspondents on Tuesday the 17th of May, 2022, also vandalised the equipment of the protesting students.
“The Nigerian Army; they came here and started shooting. See all our things. See what the Nigerian Army did to us,” one of the aggrieved students lamented in the video.
“The Nigerian Army that should protect us; see our equipment. We were here peacefully. We are fighting for our rights. See all our things,” another student fumed in the video. https://m.facebook.com/Ondomind/videos/382436910314842/?extid=WA-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C&refsrc=deprecated&ref=sharing&_rdr
The Nigerian Army is yet to comment on the incident.
Correspondents had on Monday the 16th of May, 2022 reported that students of tertiary institutions across the country took to the streets to protest the ongoing ASUU strike action.
Correspondents had gathered that the students, in their resolve to make the Nigerian Government and lecturers come to a reasonable conclusion, embarked on protests in some states to register their displeasure with the lingering strike.