A 17-year-old senior secondary school 2 (SS2) student of Unity High School in the Ago Ika area of Abeokuta has allegedly been killed by security operatives attached to the Ogun state’s special security outfits, OP MESA.
It was gathered that the student simply identified as Sadiat, the only daughter of her mother was hit in the head by a stray bullet fired by the police officers who were allegedly chasing a suspected internet fraudster popularly called ''yahoo boy'' on Thursday, July 21.
The deceased alongside her schoolmates were walking out of the school premises after the close of school for the day when a bullet fired by the security operatives mistakenly hit her in the head. Three other students and a commercial motorcyclist were also reportedly hit by the stray bullets.
Following the incident, students of the school trooped out in their numbers to the Enu-Gada Police station in protest of Sadiat's death. They were said to have pelted stones and other objects forcing the officers to disperse them.
The Ogun state police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, while reacting to the incident said the security operatives were not chasing a “Yahoo-yahoo” but, a notorious cultist, who had for a long time, been on the wanted list of the police. He added that he was not aware of the death of any student.
