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Following the crisis which rocked the University of Ado-Ekiti on Monday whenGovernor Segun Oni and other prominent persons in the state were stonedby irate students, the police in Ekiti State on Wednesday arraigned sixstudents of the university before a Magistrate’s Court on a five-countcharge.

The students were arraigned before Magistrate Adesoji Adegboye for an alleged breach of peace, unlawful gathering,unlawful damage to properties, causing injuries while rioting andassault on police officers by stoning.

Although the police arrested 10 students following the crisis and paraded all ofthem before journalists on Tuesday evening, six of the suspects werearraigned on Wednesday.

Those arraigned were Oluwatuyi Olufemi, 24; Isiaka Muri, 25; Fadoju Olubode, 19; Lawal Oluwaseyi, 18;Oladeinde Kehinde, 24; and Akinsola Busuyi, 24.

The prosecutor told the court that he would call five witnesses to testifyin his favour and he gave the names of his witnesses as A.V. Olubodun,B.C. Ogunleye, Gabriel Jacob, Ayomide Ayo-Oluwa and one SUPOL Giwa.

He, however, asked for an adjournment to enable him to study the case file.

Counsel to three of the accused students, Mr. Kayode Akinwunmi, who urged thecourt to grant his clients bail, said that the suspects had alreadyspent two days in police custody. He promised to produce them on theadjourned date.

Before adjourning the case till October 8th, 2010 for hearing, the magistrate granted the accused persons bailin the sum of N10, 000 each.

The Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Criminal Investigation Department in EkitiState, Mr. Suleiman Isa, while parading the suspects before journalistson Tuesday evening, had said that the students damaged no fewer thansix vehicles during their protest.

But some of the students interviewed denied being involved in the protest.

UNAD students had on Monday protested the hike in the fees charged fresh students of the university.

The students, who were unable to see the governor in their earlierprotests, had used the opportunity of Oni’s visit to the school toregister their anger about the new fees.

But the peaceful protest later became chaotic as some students hurled stones at thegovernor, who had insisted that he would not reverse the fees but wouldrather give the university authorities the approval to increase thefees by a maximum of 25 per cent every session.