Kwara Poly Students Protest Shooting Of Colleague

[Shola Sholaz]

Economic and social activities were, Monday, paralysed in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, following demonstration by students of Kwara State Polytechnic over the killing of one of their colleagues by a police escort.
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An Accountancy student of the polytechnic was feared dead following gun shots from the police escort of one of the leading banks in the state, leading to violent protests from his colleagues.
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Vanguard learnt that the student was about to board a vehicle to the school at the Post Office area of the town when he was suddenly shot severally on his legs. He later bled to death.
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The vehicle which the deceased would have boarded was said to have been stopped by the policeman who was escorting the bank's bullion van before the suspect suddenly started firing gun shots which hit the student on his legs severally.