NANS Asks Police, Govt. To Fish Out Ekiti Varsity Students’ Killers
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has decried the death of two students of the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, who were knocked down by vehicle recently when the officials of the Internal Revenue Board were enforcing tax collection, calling on the Ekiti State government and the police authorities to produce the killers.
The Secretary, NANS Zone D, Com. Olanrewaju Oloja, in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday, revealed that the victims, Taiwo Adekunle and Kingsley Effiong of the Departments of Accounting and Environmental Management respectively, were killed along Ado-Iworoko road last week while awaiting a vehicle to convey them to the University.
The driver of the car, according to Oloja, swerved off the road and overran the deceased student in an attempt to dodge the road block mounted by the Ministry officials who were collecting tax from motorists .
The students body, has therefore issued a 7-day ultimatum for the officials to be
produced by government and be prosecuted for their misdeeds.
Also reacting to the development in a separate press statement, the NANS Chairman, Ekiti axis, Com. Olobunmi Olomosola, described the activities of the officials as criminal , saying tax collection should be a civil matter rather than a warfare .
Olomosola said: “NANS condemns this sorrowful act without reservations and we call on the ministry to run psychiatric test on their officials.
“The security operatives in the state must fish out the perpetrators of this act and arrest them for prosecution in line with Section 07 of the criminal code.
“While we appreciate EKSU’s management for its action to save the
lives of the victims before they finally gave up, we issue a seven day
ultimatum for the internal revenue board to produce these thugs who
were carrying out their duties in a brutish fashion”.
NANS, Ekiti axis , said aside prosecuting the alleged perpetrators of the heinous crime, it demanded compensations for the victims’ families to palliate their sufferings .
The students’ body also call for immediate reduction of tuition fees
in EKSU, disclosing that students in the Faculties of Health Sciences and Law now pay as high as N300,000.00
The students’ leaders called on Governor Ayodele Fayose to probe
into the allegation of reckless levying of frivolous fees on students, in line with his electioneering campaign to make lives affordable for the teeming students of the state-owned university .
