Arrest Killers of UI Professor Ajewole- ASUU Tasks Tinubu, IGP
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan Chapter has asked the Inspector General of Police Alkali Baba to assist the Oyo state Police Command with all logistics support needed to fish out and arrest the killers of Professor Opeyemi Isaac Ajewole of the department of Social and environmental forestry Development of the Premier University.
Recall, the UI Professor, Ajewole was gruesomely gunned down by yet-to-be-identified assailants on Monday evening, 5 June 2023, in Ibadan, Oyo State.
However, in a new development, the Chairman UI Chapter of ASUU, Professor Ayo Akinwole, on Thursday tasked President Bola Tinubu to take passionate interest in discovering those behind the untimely death of Prof. Ajewole through the help of the security system.
“The hearts of every ASUU-UI member are bleeding so profusely as if pierced by swords. Our bones shook so tremendously as if our marrows were naked in the tundra region. We condemn in totality the gruesome murder of our comrade, Professor Opeyemi Isaac 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 as well as bringing the perpetrators to book.”
The UI ASUU chairman, Akinwole noted that the only tribute which the deceased deserves is that his killers are brought to justice while hoping that the lives of Nigerians should matter to the Tinubu presidency.
He added, “Professor Ajewole’s gruesome murder again reminds us of how valueless human lives have become in our clime.”
Prof. Akinwole also maintained that “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”.
He stated further that “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 recognitions in the international circle, Nigerian academia are scorned and shabbily treated by the Nigerian state and the public for being unrepentant patriots. It is, therefore, disheartening that academics who cultivate, preserve, and disseminate knowledge for the advancement and development of the society will become victims of societal malady to such an extent as to be targeted for elimination.
“The Union wishes to use this teary occasion of Professor Ajewole’s sudden death to call on the Nigerian state to resolutely tackle the problem of insecurity in the country, apprehend the killers of Professor Ajewole and punish them most appropriately. This is the least tribute that this nation can pay to our fallen hero and friend- Professor Opeyemi Isaac Ajewole.”
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