Three other students were arrested.Our correspondent learned that the students were shot while protesting on the Ogbomoso-Ilorin Expressway due to the long closure of the school.The university has been closed since June 2016 on the property and financing crises caused by the two owner states, the states of Oyo and Osun.Since then, the Government of the Student Union of the school had made several visits to the Ion Ooni, Olubadan of Ibadan, Alafin de Oyo and other traditional rulers in the two states to help them appeal to state governments.Meanwhile, to solve the problem of funding, there have been rumors that the home states were planning to increase the enrollment of N65,000 for students who are indigenous to Osun and Oyo states and N75,000 for non-indigenous to N350,000 , Respectively.As a result of this development, about 100 students took to the streets on Friday to protest against the six-month closure of school and the rumor of increased enrollment rates.While the protest was taking place, our correspondent met that several police officers fired tear gas at some of the students, while firing rubber bullets at others.One of the injured students, Fawole Israel, said he was shot three times by police while on a motorcycle.He said: "The protest was destined to be peaceful, but the police arrived and caused chaos.I was shot three times.I fell off a motorcycle.As I fell, a policeman used the back of his gun to hit me on the head.It hurt head."We have not been doing anything for the last six months and this is not helping us, we are about to miss a full academic session, which is why we had to protest.A member of the school's SUG, which was also among those protesting, Abdulfatah Oloyede, said police had injured three students and arrested three others."At this time, we do not know the whereabouts of the detainees." The wounded have been taken to the hospital for treatment.The protest should be peaceful, but mobile police arrived and caused chaos, , He said.Another student, Okedara Ridwan, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to come to the aid of the students.Repeated calls to the spokesperson for the Oyo State Police Command, DSP Ajisebutu Adekunle, by reaction were not answered at the time of submission of this report.Neither did he respond to a text message sent to him.
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