A final year student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, Okoli Chizoputam, has been beaten to death by an angry mob on campus over
A statement by the Students Union Government President, Folahan Festus, stated that the student was pronounced dead on arrival at the Emergency Department of the OAU Teaching Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.
The release reads; “I regret to announce the death of a Part 5 student assaulted in a mob action at Awo Hall yesterday. The student was declared dead on arrival at the Emergency Medicine Department of OAU Teaching Hospital this afternoon. “Preliminary investigations show that the deceased was accused to have stolen a phone. While we await official report from the law enforcement agencies, I must state that this incidence is a very sad one to Great Ife Students’ Union because our Union is not a Union of barbarians but that of intellectuals.
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