The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has issued a seven-day ultimatum to Ekiti State government to produce officials of Internal Revenue Service (IRS), who allegedly killed two students of Ekiti State University (EKSU), while enforcing tax collection. The students also urged the state police command to prosecute the revenue officials for their alleged complicity in the death of the two students on Friday, March 11, 2017, along Ado-Iworoko Road.

A statement signed by NANS Zone ‘D’ Secretary, Olanrewaju Oloja, identified the two students killed as Taiwo Adekunle, a student of Accounting and Kingsley Effiong, a student of Environmental Management at EKSU. It was learnt that the late students were waiting on the roadside for commercial vehicle to convey them to the campus, when a car swerved off the road and ran over them in an attempt to dodge a roadblock mounted by revenue officials.

In another statement by NANS Chairman, Ekiti axis, Olubunmi Olomosola, the student body described the activities of the officials as criminal, saying tax collection should be a civil matter rather than a warfare. Olomosola said:  “NANS condemns this sorrowful act without reservations and we call on the ministry to run psychiatric test on their officials.

“The security operatives in the state must fish out the perpetrators of this act and arrest them for prosecution in line with Section 07 of the Criminal Code. While we appreciate EKSU’s management for its action to save the lives of the victims before they finally gave up, we issue a seven- day ultimatum for the internal revenue board to produce these thugs who were carrying out their duties in a brutish fashion”.

The Nation