A final-year undergraduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has been mobbed to death on campus over the alleged theft of a phone.
The incident was said to have happened in the Awo Hall of the institution.
The deceased was rushed to the Emergency Medicine Department of OAU Teaching Hospital on Tuesday afternoon after he started experiencing excruciating pain owing to the assault he suffered but was confirmed dead at the hospital yesterday.
Confirming the incident, the President, Great Ife Students’ Union, Festus Olayiwole, described the final year student’s death as sad, saying arrests and prosecution of those connected with the mob action were ongoing.
The statement read, “I regret to announce the death of a Part 5 student assaulted in a mob action at Awo Hall yesterday (Monday).
The student was declared dead on arrival at the Emergency Medicine Department of OAU Teaching Hospital this (Tuesday) afternoon.
“Preliminary investigations show that the deceased was accused to have stolen a phone.
While we await an official report from the law enforcement agencies, I must state that this incident is a very sad one for Great Ife Students’ Union because our union is not a union of barbarians but that of intellectuals.”
When contacted, the Public Relations
Officer of OAU, Mr. Abiodun Olanrewaju, who confirmed the incident, said:
“The management will make its position known concerning that, we are still trying to investigate the circumstances that led to the death of the students.”