The management of OAU (Obafemi Awolowo University), Osun State has
suspended four of its students allegedly said to have engaged in criminal
activities.
It was reported that the Vice Chancellor of the University,
Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, approved their immediate suspension, following
the investigation of the police and pending its outcome.
The affected students include Omole Ibukun Ayodele, studying Civil
Engineering, Jacob Tosin Grace, in the Faculty of Law. Others are Udeh John, a
student in the department of Arts and Social Sciences and one Oluwalade
Babatunde, said to be studying English.
Confirming the development, OAU Public Relations Officer, Mr Abiodun
Olarewaju, in a statement, said, 'the students, together with other persons,
vandalised commercial transport vehicles of the members of the National Union
of Road Transport Workers in Ile-Ife, and drove two other vehicles to more
police stations where other students being interrogated by the police were
forcefully released by their group. The Vice-Chancellor of the University,
Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, upon careful review of the facts and circumstances
of the matter, has come to the inevitable conclusion that the students involved
be suspended from the University in the interim, pending police investigation
and until such time as the situation shall have been reviewed and resolved'.
Following their alleged misconducts, the students were further ordered
“to vacate the campus and are accordingly forbidden to participate in any
activity of the University, either within or outside the campus. “The
University management has, therefore, advised law-abiding students to
concentrate on their studies and shun any act or utterance that is capable of
elongating the academic calendar beyond the stipulated period,” the statement
read.
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