There was tension on Thursday as security operatives attached to the state’s special security outfits, OP MESA, allegedly shot dead a female student of Unity High School in Ago Ika area of Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The victim identified as Sadiat was allegedly shot dead by the operatives who were chasing suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as “yahoo boys”.
It was gathered that bullet fired by the security operatives mistakenly hit the 17-year-old girl in the head, who was an SS 2 student.
The victim, it was further gathered, was shot while she and others were walking out of the school premises after close of school for the day.
She was rushed to the Federal Medical Center (FMC), Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, where she reportedly died.
Angered by the development, the victim’s colleagues stormed the Enu-Gada Police station in Ago Ika area of Abeokuta in protest.
The students were said to have pelted police operatives on duty with stones and other harmful objects, forcing the officers to disperse them.
An SS 1 student of the school, Rafiu Ibrahim, alleged that the security operatives shot directly at the students without regards to their safety, even when it was obvious that they were all in school uniform, emerging from the school premises.
The Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident, but added that he was not aware of the death of any student.
Oyeyemi said the security operatives were not chasing any “Yahoo-yahoo” but, a notorious cultist, who had for a long time, being on the wanted list of the police.
He added that a Police Inspector was macheted on the head during the crisis.