Students Begin Seven-Day Protest At Ogun Hospital Over Worker’s Death

Nurses at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Ogun State, have commenced a seven-day protest over the death of their colleague, Taiwo Godwin Ayodeji, with protesters accusing police officers of threatening them with guns while they attempted to lock the hospital’s gate. A video showed armed policemen stationed at the entrance of the hospital as the protest continued. One of the protesters, speaking in the video, accused the police of confronting them after they attempted to lock the hospital’s gate “So this is the report live this morning. We came to lock the gate and the security, they are here to attack us. We locked the gate and the DPO broke the gate, they are here to attack us. They came with guns, they are pointing guns at we students. We are here this morning with them and justice shall prevail,” the protester said. The protest follows the death of Ayodeji, a nurse who reportedly suffered an asthma attack at the hospital while receiving treatment.