The hearing-impaired students, who stormed the land located on Lagos-Ibadan expressway in about six long commercial vehicles, were mumbling some incoherent words and displaying placards with different inscriptions pleading with the Oyo State Government led by Governor Abiola Ajimobi not to add to their problems with the alleged acquisition of the land.
Speaking on behalf of the hearing impaired students and their teachers, Mr Solomon Fasanya, Technical Supervisor for Andrew Foster Christian Mission School for the Deaf, who spoke with an interpreter, Miss Joseph Julianah, said the school bought the acres of land in 2004.Fasanya said: “The government told us that the land has fallen into acquisition area. Since 2016, we have been writing to the government to consider our condition and look elsewhere for land.
The Principal of the school, Mr. Johnson Olalekan said their present school at Onireke is too small for them. Also, a student from the school, Mr. Sulaiman Shuaib, Health Prefect and Elder Anifowose Omolayo, who graduated from the school in 1968 said it was difficult for him to further education but he had to travel abroad to American University before he could get university education.When contacted, the Oyo State Commissioner for Lands and Housing, Mr. Isaac Omodewu said: “On the land, the issue predates the current administration in Oyo State.