The Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEOS) has strongly condemned a trigger-happy Police officers for shooting two students of Osun State University (UNIOSUN), Osogbo at the weekend, saying that the affected Police officers should be charged for attempted murder without further delay by the Police authorities, adding that the rights group had concluded arrangement to ensure that justice was done to the affected students.

The group also warned the authority of Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in the country, not to sweep this dastard act under the carpet because of police involvement, which is contrary to the section 33 of the amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He urged the Police authorities to disclose the names of the trigger-happy Police officers that carried out the heinous act in line with the Freedom of Information Act 2011 and amended National Human Rights Commission Act, 2010.

Reacting to the development through a statement signed by the CSCEOS’ Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman said the group was yet to come to terms with how the Police officers would descend on armless University Students by shooting them like animal in a democratic era.

The Statement quoted the Students’ allegation that the plain-cloth Policemen were at the students’ Hostel around Oke-Baale, to extort students of the University that allegedly involved in the advance free fraud, popularly known as ‘Yahoo-Yahoo (YY)’, where the officers shoot in the process, queried the Police authority that sent the trigger-happy cops for a special assignment at the Students Hostel on the fateful Saturday.

It added that all the officers in the department where the trigger-happy Police officers were working, should be investigated so as to unravel the circumstances that lead to the act, recalling that the Citadel of Learning has been witnessing bad reportage in the news, since the beginning of the second term in office of Mr. Rauf Aregbesola in November, 2014.

According to the statement, the two final year students of the University, Robert Akinduro and Samuel Eke were recently missing, the University lecturer were caught in a sex video with the female student recently and the corpse of the 400 level Student, late Miss Rofiat Adebisi of Ipetu-Ijesa campus of the University, was found in Iragbiji recently, while the new Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Labode Popoola, recently announced the unpaid tuition fees of N2 billion to the world.

It would be recalled that the two students of the state owned University (UNIOSUN), Adesola Kazeem and Ibrahim Ajao, the 300 and 400 levels of the Department of Physics Electronics respectively, were shot by the plain-clothed men of the Zone 11 of the Nigerian Police Force controlling Osun, Oyo and Ondo states on Saturday, where it was claimed that the Police officers were looking for Yahoo-Yahoo boys.

The group therefore, called on the attention of the University authority to go spiritual in cleansing of the institution because of the recent occurrence in the University community in order to forestall future occurrences.

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