Police Arrest, Disperse Osun Polytechnic Students Protest:
Hundreds of Osun students were protesting the continued closure of their institutions of learning, due to an industrial action by the academic and non-academic staff of Nigerian polytechnics.
They are students from Osun State-owned polytechnic school, and the various state-run colleges of education.
The students, numbering over 200, marched down a busy road, and later converged at the Orita Ola-Iya junction, in Oshogbo. But, eyewitnesses told SaharaReporters they were dispersed shortly afterwards by a heavily armed police unit dressed in riot gear. The police stormed their gathering where several scuffles had broken out.
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The policemen at the scene reportedly arrested about sixteen of the students. Eyewitnesses say the arrests were violent. Injuries sustained as a result of the mass arrest have so far not been reported.
Others students who were dispersed from that group, numbering under 100, later moved to another junction, at Oke-Ifa to continue on with their protest.
(SharaReporters)
