CRPP condemns Edo Children’s Day tragedy, demands compensation for injured students

The Coalition of Registered Political Parties, CRPP, has condemned the Children’s Day solemnisation calamity astatine the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium successful Edo State, wherever respective students sustained varying degrees of injuries.

DAILY POST reports that pandemonium broke retired connected Wednesday, May 27, 2026, astatine the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium successful Benin City, the venue of the Children’s Day celebration, arsenic respective students reportedly sustained injuries aft information operatives fired capsicum spray and teargas canisters during the event.

At the lawsuit organised by the Edo State Ministry of Education, respective students, peculiarly pistillate students, reportedly fainted aft inhaling the substances, portion others sustained injuries aft being stepped connected during the ensuing melee.

Many of the affected students were reportedly rushed to the Edo Specialist Hospital for aesculapian attention.

Reacting, the nationalist enactment of the CRPP queried wherefore the Edo State Government would usage non-state actors specified arsenic bouncers for assemblage power astatine a ceremonial of specified magnitude.

The assemblage ...