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Eighty-four students of the College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti were yesterday arraigned before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate's Court as three more students were feared dead while the protest which started on Saturday continued till Monday evening.
The students were charged for illegal assembly, as the police prosecuting officer alleged that the suspects were arrested while engaging in unlawful assembly which resulted into bloody riots.
The prosecutor alleged that the suspect made bonfire in the process, thus committing felony.
All the suspects pleaded not guilty to the charges before Magistrate Abiodun Adelodun who granted them bail in the sum of N20,000 each with a surety.
12 of the suspects were separately charged for illegal assembly before the same magistrate who granted them bail in the sum of N40,000 each with one surety.
Similarly, one Wale Ayeni, an official of the state's Petroleum Price Monitoring Committee (PPMC) was equally arraigned for allegedly inciting the students to embark on the violent protest and was granted bail in the sum of N50,000 with a surety, while hearing in the case was adjourned till May 5.
Meanwhile, the three additional students killed on Monday evening were allegedly shot by mobile policemen when the rampaging students attempted to burn the country home of a member of Board of Trustee of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dayo Okondo in Ikere-Ekiti.
No fewer than six students were killed on Sunday when the students embarked on the protest of the choice of a new provost for the college.
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