Nigeria police officer slaps student, causes chaos in Muhsin
By Abideen Muhammed
The Nigeria police of area ‘D’ Muhsin clashed with some set of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education students union members right in front of their station on Thursday, 10th May, 2018 at about 11:30AM.
The clash was as a result of the police officers using their van to block the road instead of entering their station. One of the students of AOCOED travelling to TASUED for South – West parliamentary summit angrily asked the police to leave the road. ‘Please let us pass, we are in a haste’, an eyewitness told our correspondent.
Following the statement, Inspector Olaleye Micheal was reported to have left the van just to slapped the student who identified himself as Prince Azeez Bashiru. It was the slap that triggered others students in the bus to fight the officers in the van before one of them removed an ‘officer cap’ and two students were arrested.
A student in the van, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they we won’t have retaliated if we knew earlier that we are beside their police station.
While revealing that two students were arrested for their strong involvement in the clash, the speaker of the union, Rt. Hon. Musodiq said those of us remaining made several efforts to resolve it. We called our Dean, DOP of Ijanikin (the station close to AOCOED) and others to help us. In fact, I had to call my dad who is a legal practitioner when they transferred them to OLOSAN because then court seem inevitable.
‘At a time, they said we should go and call our lawyer. They charged them with three offences which is we can’t deny some but they never included slapping a student first. They threatened the two students with jail in which one was grieving but the other was not. But we thank God, they were released about 7:00PM since 11:30AM without collecting a dime’.
‘I thank our neighbouring school that stood with us especially OCEANOGRAPHY, LASPOTECH among others. The area commander of the station also showed us a fatherly attitude by advising us and releasing them’.
When the students arrested were asked to narrate their experience, Azeez Bashiru said, ‘I have really learnt today – I know struggle is not easy and there is no justice in our land. They beat me mercilessly in the station when I was shouting ‘injustice’ while my friend was just crying and begging’. They transferred us to one man in OLOSAN police station and detain us in crime department or so’.
The other student, Adedokun A’baqi was just thanking God that they were released ‘since my childhood, I have never been to police station before. This is my first experience and it was brutal. I can forget today till my last breath’.
The students, however , claimed that the officer with ‘Adelaja O’ on his badge who is also involved in the clash lit a cigarette and smoke in front of their station while we were begging to release our students.
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