National Telescope national telescope newspaper
The Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, was on Sunday shut indefinitely following violent protest by students over the death of two of them.
Monitored on Channels TV this medium gathered that trouble began on the institution’s campus late Friday, when two of the students reportedly complained of became sick.
They were said to have been rushed to the Polytechnic Health Centre for treatment and they were not been attended to before their condition became worse and they later died in the early hours of Saturday.
The Registrar of the institution, Sade Adediran, who announced the immediate and indefinite closure of the school stated that the student lied that they were not answered.
“It is a lie that they were not answered because even me myself I do visit the health centre..”
Mrs. Adediran did not, however, confirm whether any student actually died at the Polytechnic Health Centre, said to be the trigger for the violent protest.
NAN also gathered from campus sources that the students on learning that their colleagues had died, quickly mobilised themselves, marched to the Health Centre and burnt it down.
Apart from also destroying some other property, the students blocked all roads leading to the institution preventing free movement of vehicles.
One of the students, who asked not to be mentioned, condemned the attitude of the polytechnic authorities over their welfare and well-being.
He alleged that the only drug available at the health centre was paracetamol.
According to him, paracetamol was also given the two students who were taken to the centre, instead of being given effective malaria drugs or injection.
