Nigeria: OOU Accident - Students Barricade Sagamu-Benin Expressway, Protest Colleagues' Death

30 June 2015

Abeokuta — Hundreds of aggrieved students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, monday barricaded Sagamu-Benin expressway, scene of last Friday's fatal accident which claimed the lives of 12 students of the institution.

The students dressed in black clothes and carrying placards bearing various inscriptions, lamented over the unfortunate incident. Some of the placards read: 'We Demand Justice for the Lost Souls, 'OOU Mourns, OOU Weeps, OOU Cries', 'A Future Lawyer is Gone!' 'Fresh Graduates are Gone!' 'We've Lost Our Scientists', 'Police, FRSC, trace must be Probed', among others.

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