On Thursday, the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ chapter at the University of Ibadan in Oyo State requested that President Bola Tinubu and Inspector General of Police Alkali Baba find the people responsible for the murder of Opeyemi Ajewole, a professor of social and environmental forestry development there.
Ajewole was brutally slain by unidentified gunmen on Monday while returning home in the Orogun neighborhood of the state’s Akinyele Local Government Area, according to the ANAEDOONLINE.
In a statement from its leader, Ayo Akinwole, ASUU added urged IGP Baba to provide the state police command with all the logistical support required to identify and apprehend the victims’ killers.
Akinwole also urged Tinubu to take a passionate interest in the case and ensure the security system unmasks the faces behind the murder of the institution’s lecturer.
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He said, “The hearts of every ASUU-UI member are bleeding so profusely as if pierced by swords. Our bones shook so tremendously that it was as if our marrows were naked in the tundra region.
“We condemn in totality the gruesome murder of our comrade, Ajewole, and charge the security operatives to track down and apprehend the perpetrators of this dastardly act, with a view to unravelling the motive behind the incident and bringing the perpetrators to book.
“The only tribute which the death of Ajewole deserves is that his killers are brought to justice and that Nigerians’ lives should matter to the Tinubu presidency. Ajewole’s gruesome murder again reminds us of how valueless human lives have become in our clime.
“Death lurks in all imaginable and unimaginable corners of this country and comes cheaply. The Nigerian populace is constantly assailed by terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, armed robbery, assassination, hunger, unemployment, and many more insidious exterminators of our individual and collective dreams.
“The situation of the Nigerian academics is even doubly precarious; they are prophets without any honour at home. Despite their immense contributions to national growth and development and recognition in the international circle, Nigerian academia is scorned and shabbily treated by the Nigerian state and the public for being unrepentant patriots.”
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