Police have arrested 94 suspects for their alleged involvement in the riot that took place in the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi in Edo State.
The Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Chris Ezike, gave the figure on Friday during a visit to the school for damage assessment in southern Nigeria.
He vowed that the perpetrators of the vicious act would be brought to justice.
The Police Commissioner said that the suspects who were mostly students of the institution had been charged.
The acting Rector of Auchi Polytechnic, Mr Jafaru Buraimah, refuted claims that the protest was said to have been triggered by the school’s “no fee-no examination policy”.
The riot led to the destruction of at least 160 vehicles and other school property allegedly worth millions of Naira.