The National Association of Nigerian Students,NANS, has directed the Ekiti State government and the police authorities to produce the killers of the two students of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, who were knocked down by vehicle recently when the officials of the Internal Revenue Board were enforcing tax collection.
In a statement signed by the Secretary, NANS, Zone D, Com. Olanrewaju Oloja, on Monday, the students’ body said the victims, Taiwo Adekunle and Kingsley Effiong of the Departments of Accounting and Environmental Management respectively, were killed along Ado-Iworoko road last week while waiting to get a vehicle to convey them to the University.
Oloja, who lamented the killing said, the victims were waiting beside the road when a car swerved off the road and overran them in an attempt to dodge the road-block mounted by the Ministry’s officials who were collecting tax from motorists .
NANS, thereby issued a 7-day ultimatum for the officials to be produced by government and be prosecuted for their misdeeds.
In another related press statement by NANS Chairman, Ekiti axis, Com. Olobunmi Olomosola, it described the activities of the officials as criminal, saying tax collection should be a civil matter rather than a warfare .
The NANS Zonal leader said: “NANS condemns this sorrowful act without reservations and we call on the ministry to run psychiatric test on their officials.
“The security operatives in the state must fish out the perpetrators of this act and arrest them for prosecution in line with Section 07 of the criminal code.
“While we appreciate EKSU’s management for its action to save the lives of the victims before they finally gave up, we issue a seven day ultimatum for the internal revenue board to produce these thugs who were carrying out their duties in a brutish fashion”.
NANS , Ekiti axis , said aside prosecuting the alleged perpetrators of the heinous crime, it demanded compensations for the victims’ families to palliate their sufferings.
The students’ body also call for immediate reduction of tuition fees in EKSU, disclosing that students in the Faculties of Health Sciences and Law now pay as high as N300,000.00
The students’ leaders called on Governor Ayodele Fayose to probe the allegation of reckless levying of frivolous fees on students in line with his electioneering campaign to make lives affordable for the teeming students of the state-owned university.
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