OOU final-year student shot dead during robbery attack

A final-year pupil of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago-Iwoye, simply identified arsenic Timi, has been changeable dormant during an equipped robbery onslaught connected Thursday.

DAILY POST learnt that the robbers stormed the Konigba area, a conception inhabited by students, and operated for respective hours without immoderate intervention.

Reports bespeak that astir 7 houses were targeted during the attack, including that of the deceased.

Witnesses reported that the robbers forcibly entered the houses by breaking doors and gaining entree done the roofs. They carted distant phones, laptops, money, state cylinders, and different valuables.

The students, however, took to the streets successful protest, demanding accountability from the authorities pursuing the tragic sidesplitting of the student.

They marched to the palace of the Ebumawe of Ago-Iwoye, Oba Abdulrazaq Adenugba, the Ago Police Station, and the assemblage campus, singing solidarity songs and carrying placards with assorted inscriptions specified as: “Ago-Iwoye is not safe, we request our safety,” “Our dependable indispensable beryllium heard,” “Say nary to insecurity,” and “We are present to learn, not to beryllium robbed.”

Reacting to the incident, the schoolhouse management, successful an authoritative connection released by the institution’s Deputy Registrar and Head of Corporate Affairs, Mr. Niyi Oduwole, declared Thursday a lecture-free da...