The incident happened at the University’s campus, Adewole area, Ilorin penultimate Wednesday. Though, the gunmen in mufti claimed to be security agents, the students insisted that they could not arrest their colleague without the consent of the institution’s management.

The development resulted in pandemonium during which the vice chancellor, Professor AbdulKareem sustained injury on one of his hands.

The school authority was also in support of the action of the students because the VC claimed that it was wrong for any security operative to carry out any operation within the university’s campus without formally intimating the management about such development.

The development disrupted academic activities at the university before the police from Adewole police station were invited to douse the tension.

According to the VC, the policemen from Adewole division upon arrival at the university, arrested the armed men and later transferred them to the state police headquarters.

“What happened this morning is a case of mis-judgement by authority that is supposed to be enforcing laws. They came to the campus and tried to arrest a female student. We had to intervene because students insisted that students can not be arrested from campus without letting the authorities know.

“It is very unfortunate that anybody will come to the university campus and want to make an arrest and made no effort to inform constituted authorities.

“Anyway, if we had not come there to address the students because these men were armed, I do not know what would have happened.  We thank God; the only person that got wounded was myself. I was trying to clear the debris that the students put in front of the vehicles. These people were in mufti; that is what is more disturbing. If you come in uniform and you want to effect an arrest, you still need to tell the constituted authority. But to make the matter worse, when you come to the campus with plain clothe and want to arrest a female student, it is not something that the students will stomach.

“We call for the police and they came. The people that came to make arrest are with the police now. Meanwhile, the student is safely in our hands. She is a 200 level student and the situation is calm now,” he said.