A Nigerian Polytechnic Shuts down, As Military Takes Over Campus to Shutdown Graduation Celebration

Daily Rendezvous

Several students have been reported injured and some part of the building on campus were set ablazed, after a combined forces of military personnel and police officers unleashed unbelievable horror on the main campus of the Adamawa state polytechnic, Yola, attacking students with clubs and machete.

The Adamawa state polytechnic, Yola, has become yet another scene of police brutality as students were reported to have been attacked by security forces who chased them down into their hostels, and used cubs and cutlasses on them thereby causing injuries to several unsuspecting students getting ready for exams.

According to some eye witnesses, the faceoff between the students started shortly after the management pasted a notice banning a popular graduation campus culture "Signing Out."

"The angry students then took their celebrations outside the campus which immediately led to gridlocks on the street opposite the campus.

"As the students who graduated today began a similar celebration, some security forces stormed our campus at around 12:30pm to 3pm  and began shooting into the air sporadically and chasing students all over the campus."

A student who was badly injured by the security forces said, "We were to write examinations by 2pm today, when all of a sudden, some security forces attacked some of us, my friends escaped but they caught me and treated me like a criminal.

"More than ten of them used the studs of their guns and clubs to crush my legs, I could not walk, ny friends had to take me to a hospital.

"What surprised me is that, I did not say anything negative at them, I and my colleagues were on our way to write exams and we were not told it has been cancelled, so it was logical that we would be heading to exams halls, after all it did not involve us, since it was about graduating students celebration, so why did they attack us?" He asked.

Another student narrating his ordeal said, "We don't know why police would just come to our campus obviously invited by our school management and start attacking us and shooting sporadically all over the campus and scaring students away.

"Those who graduated were just celebrating and that is not a criminal activity, so bringing armed men into the campus is wicked and the state government look into that.

"I was in the school clinic, several students are there with various degrees of injuries and some asthmatic patients collapsed in the midst of the confusion," he lamented.

The Sun gathered that some angry students have set one of the school buildings on fire as a result of the mayhem.

Following the mayhem, the school management has issued a statement closing down the school. The statement which was signed by the Registrar, Rebecca Kinjir,  reads, "This is to inform all staff and students that for security reason, the polytechnic is closed with immediate effect.

"Students are to vacate the hostel and school premises immediately. Students that are yet to finish examinations are to write their examinations after Easter break.

"Comply with the directive and give peace a chance."