On Wednesday, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
expressed great fear over the rising number of killings and kidnappings
against its members across the country.
On Tuesday night, unknown gunmen suspected to be hired assassins shot
and killed a lecturer, Dr. Deji Adejobi, of the Department of
Agricultural Economics of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife (OAU).
SaharaReporters gathered that the deceased is an older brother of the
Ogun State Police Spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi.
The late Adejobi was killed after being chased into his residential compound around 10 PM.
Through its local chapter at the Federal University of Technology,
Akure (FUTA), the ASUU said such criminality is now becoming a trend and
said the government must respond “urgently.”
Bola Oniya, the Chairman of the ASUU, expressed these concerns at a press conference held in Akure, the Ondo State capital.
Mr. Oniya described the assassination of Dr. Adejobi as barbaric and
saddening to all lecturers in the country. He said ASUU members are now
worried why ordinary, unarmed university lecturers would be the targets
of murderous killings happening at the hands of armed men. "We were
bedeviled recently with a flurry of kidnappings… We feel threatened by
the state of insecurity in this country. We don't know why we are now
the targets,” he said.
The Chairman also condemned the gruesome killing of the former Vice
Chancellor of FUTA, Professor Albert Ilemobade, who was murdered last
month by his household staff.
Mr. Oniya, who was pessimistic about the events that led to the
grisly killing of Mr. Ilemobade, said officers of the Nigeria Police
Force in Ondo State must do more in their investigation to unravel the
causes.
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