Temitope Ilo, the Students' Union Government president at the Ogun State Institute of Technology, led a delegation yesterday when student leaders from the NANS Ogun State Joint Campus Council and the National Association of Ogun State Students visited OGITECH in Igbesa after reports of alleged police brutality.
The student bodies told a crowd gathered at the school gate that some OGITECH students had been allegedly assaulted, intimidated and extorted by police officers attached to the Igbesa area, and they urged students to remain peaceful and law‑abiding as the case was taken up formally.
After addressing those assembled, the students and their leaders staged a peaceful march to the Igbesa Police Division to lodge complaints and press for action. The delegation was received by the Divisional Police Officer of Atan Division, and were told that the officer allegedly involved and others linked to the incident had been invited to the Ogun State Police Headquarters for investigation.
The student leaders demanded several immediate remedies: the removal of the officers allegedly involved from the area, identification and sanction of erring personnel, and a public apology to the affected students. They also said they would not stand by while students were subjected to intimidation, extortion and assault and vowed to pursue justice.
The delegation later visited injured students who were receiving treatment at a medical facility. At the school, the group met with the rector, Dr. Abiodun, who commended the student leadership's measured response and assured them the institution would assume responsibility for the injured students' medical expenses.
The protesters publicly praised the Commissioner of Police, Ojajuni, for what they described as prompt intervention that resulted in the invitation to headquarters. Still, the student bodies reiterated that invitation and investigation must be followed by concrete discipline and a public apology if the allegations are substantiated.
School leaders and student representatives framed the incident not as isolated. They said there had been previous reports from students and members of the host community alleging harassment and extortion by officers attached to the Igbesa division. The supplementary reporting named the institution as the Gateway Institute of Technology, Igbesa, and identified the SUG president as Temitope Ilo; that account also noted a separate line of reporting about an arrest over possession of black soap, but student leaders stressed that their primary concern was the pattern of alleged abuse and extortion.
The timeline the student bodies laid out placed the recent visit, the march to the Igbesa Police Division, the hospital visits and the meeting with Dr. Abiodun all on the same day: yesterday. Officials at the Igbesa division told the delegation that the implicated officer and others had been summoned to Ogun State Police Headquarters for questioning, a step the students welcomed but said did not replace the demand for immediate local removal and sanctions.
The friction in the story is the gap between a police promise of investigation and the students' demand for immediate, visible steps: removal from the area, naming of erring personnel, disciplinary action and an apology. The students and their leaders pressed that an invitation to headquarters must lead to accountability in the community where the alleged incidents occurred, not simply an internal inquiry without public consequence.
What happens next is now centered on the investigation at Ogun State Police Headquarters and whether it will satisfy the students' list of remedies. The decisive test will be whether the police action results in personnel changes, formal sanctions and the public apology the delegation demanded — and whether that outcome ends what student leaders describe as a pattern of harassment in Igbesa.
