On Wednesday, eight students of
the Lagos State University (LASU), including three females, were charged before
an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ court over an alleged breach of public peace.
The accused are:
The accused are: Olamide
Bolarinwa, 23; Oludare Olayinka, 18; Victoria Oni, 18; Timilehin Fatukasi, 19;
Babatunde Bolarinwa, 24; Taiwo Ajayi, 24; Olatimihan Taiwo, 20, and Segun
Akani, 27.
They are
facing a one-count charge of breach of public peace.
The
prosecutor, ASP Samson Ekikere, told the court that the accused committed the
offence at 5:45 p.m. on June 3, at Ladipo Bus Stop, Oshodi Road, Lagos.
Ekikere said
the accused conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause a breach of public
peace by hijacking a LAGBUS bus, No P004, with registration No. SMK 719 XK,
property of the Lagos State Government.
He said that
the students, who were protesting the hike in school fees, caused discomfort to
motorists plying the route.
The prosecutor
said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 166 (d) of the Criminal
Law of Lagos State, 2011.
If convicted,
they are each liable to three months imprisonment.
However, the
accused all pleaded not guilty to the charge preferred against them.
The Chief
Magistrate, Mrs Eniola Fabamwo, granted them to bail in the sum of N10, 000
each, with one responsible surety.
She said that
the surety must be a blood relative of the accused.
Fabamwo
adjourned the case until 6 August, for mention.
My
Take
So
what about their right to a reasonable School fees, who is fighting that for
them? These is a country where when Government needs money for whether personal
gains or whatever, they just arbitrary increase the prices of things, and sadly
even school fees.
Late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, God bless his soul, gave us free education and even some
for these same government officials enjoyed that privilege but today they want
parents to pay from their noses for their wards. If these parents could afford
high school fees, would they have allowed their children go to public
schools, where a 4 years program will be rounded up after 6-7 years? Please the
Lagos State Government should tell us something else.
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