Scores of students of the Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, Ondo State have protested the alleged rape of four female students of the institution by gunmen.

Consequently, the Management of institution has shutdown the school for two weeks over the security threats.

According to Vanguard, the hoodlums also robbed the students of their valuables like phones, laptops, gadgets before raping the female students at gunpoint.

The university’s students had trooped out to register their displeasure over incessant robberies in their hostels, threats to their lives and properties and rape of the students by hoodlums.

During the peaceful protest, the students blocked the Okitipupa-Igbokoda highway thereby disrupting free-flow of traffic.

The President, Student Union Government of the institution, Damilola Okunomo confirmed the ugly incident to newsmen.

Okunomo expressed concern over the security situation in the institution adding that ” the students were tired of the level of insecurity in the area.

He confirmed that four female students were raped by the hoodlum who invaded the instition from the neighbourhood.

Okunomo alleged that the institution’s management was not doing enough on the security of lives and properties of students.

According to him “We are tired of this insecurity, armed hoodlums usually come to our off-campus hostels, rob students at gunpoint, and also rape our female students.

“The school management is not to doing enough as we are the ones securing ourselves by working as vigilantes most times, the situation is terrible.

“We urge the school management to do its best in securing us and complete all the uncompleted hostel accommodations in our campus as this will also guarantee our security.

The Dean of Students Affairs, Ilemobayo Oguntimehin said that the school management was doing its best to secure the lives and properties of the students.