An insider, who does not want his name in print, because, he does not have the right to speak to the press, said though, they we shocked at what happened, they were anticipating security problems as it has always been when they are writing exams.
Recall that a video has gone viral showing where students of the school were on a rampage, attacking teachers, police officers, and destroying cars while setting offices ablaze.
According to him:
“As our tradition here is, during the end of every term’s examination, we do invite security officers to avoid any breakdown of law and order, so the exam was to stop on the 10th of December, days before vacation.
“But, days before the exams started, we were battling with students throwing bangers and other explosives in the compound.
“So, when the exam started on Friday, 3rd December, we invited some policemen and vigilante membersin case of any eventuality. So because we anticipated that there could be a disturbance, the first set of policemen came, while we wait for other police officers.
“One of the policemen on duty was moving around the school compound, what happened is what some of us don’t know. But we saw that the students were chasing the policeman, so some of his colleagues came to rescue him, that was when the students started throwing stones and other weapons. So when it became uncontrollable, teachers started running for their lives, then the children went on a rampage destroying everything on sight, the police were called from the Police Command. But they could not control them.
“It was when, they invited the DSS people that, they used gunshot to scare them away. Later the DSS personnel arrested about 49 of the students who were hiding in the bush. They are now at the police command.”
Reacting, the PPRO, of the Edo State Police Command, SP Bello Katongs, said 49 of the students has been arrested, over willful destruction of government properties.
