Activist/founder of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde
Bakare has accused former president Olusegun Obasanjo of killing students
unionism in the country at the time he was military head of state in 1978.
The newspaper says: According to Bakare, Obasanjo as the
then Head of State in 1978, used brute force to repress the students during the
“Ali must go” protest. Some students were killed in the process; one of them
was Akintunde Ojo.
Delivering a paper titled, “Good Governance: Sustainability
of democracy, the role of students in the fourth coming general elections”.
Bakare said it was unfortunate that students unionism had been hijacked by
unserious students.
Recalling the history of students unionism from the colonial
days, he noted that it suffered a fatal blow in 1978. He said General Olusegun
Obasanjo’s Government ordered the brutal suppression of that protest. Live bullets
were unleashed on protesting students. As we proceeded outside the University
Of Lagos main gate, I narrowly escaped death, as Akintunde Ojo, the gentleman
standing just beside me was gun down.
Today, thousands of students in the
University Of Lagos use the school’s library which was named after Akintunde
Ojo but never bother to know how he died!!
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