By Dayo Johnson

Akure—FORTY-SEVEN students, who allegedly injured three policemen and manhandled Ondo State government officials during a protest over alleged non-payment of their bursary allowance have been arrested and detained by the state Police Command.

The students, from higher institutions from the oil-rich communities of the state, staged a protest to the state Oil Producing Area Development Commission office in Oba-Ile, Akure, over alleged non-payment of their bursary.

The intervention of policemen from the state Police Command saved the commission from being destroyed and the workers from further attacks.

The protest turn bloody when the students, according to police image maker, manhandled the Permanent Secretary and other principal officers of the commission.

Vanguard gathered that the students arrived in buses, chantingd solidarity songs and rained abuses on the commission’s management for non-payment of their bursary.

They booed the chairman of the commission, Pastor Johnson Ogunyemi, and call him unprintable names.

Visitors were prevented from going in, just as residents in the area fled their houses for fear that the students may vent their anger on them.

The students alleged that they were owed 2013/2014 bursary allowance.

One of the students said: “They refused to pay our allowance and this is the second time we would be visiting here without being paid. We felt the only language they would understand is to protest.”

Contacted, the Police image maker Wole Ogodo, confirmed the arrest of the 47students for breaking of law and order.