Operatives of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Intelligence Response Team has purportedly opened fire on students’ leaders in Akure, Ondo state.
Trouble started on Friday August 27th 2021, when the students resisted the operatives who allegedly stormed the community on alleged extortion.
It was gathered that the students were attacked by the operatives on illegal duty around Dome in Alagbaka area of the state capital.
“They came to extort some students at the Federal University of Technology yesterday and we confronted them. So this evening, while coming from a ceremony at the Dome, we saw their vehicles coming toward us, before we know what happened, they started shooting. Three of our students are currently injured,” a students’ leader told newsmen.
At press time, calls and text message sent to the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CP Frank Mba, were not responded to.
