How Cultists Kidnap, Murder Kogi Varsity Professor And Another Student
LOKOJA—A lecturer with Kogi State University, KSU, Anyigba, Associate Professor
Justice Olurotimi Otitolaye, has been reported killed by cult members in the
institution.
Otis, who was said to be a jovial, nice and well-respected person, also held a
chieftaincy title from his home town, Kabba, headquarters of Kabba/Bunu Local
Government Area of the state.
The student was killed, according to a source, around the dreaded Stadium Road on Saturday night.
Source: Vanguard
Vanguard gathered that Professor Otitolaye, who had been championing war
against examination malpractice in the institution, was abducted around
Stadium Road, near the campus on Friday night, on his way to a supermarket.
His bullet-riddled body was found in the early of hours of Sunday at Ejule,
which is about 8 kilometres away from the school.
The cultists were said to have fired sporadic shots into the air to scare away
people living around the area before taking the lecturer to an unknown
destination.
The murdered lecturer, simply called Otis, was a renowned agriculturist, who
was a former pre-degree director and a lecturer in Faculty of Agriculture in
the Department of Agric Economics and Extension at the university.
The body of the lecturer has been deposited at the university teaching
hospital.
Some lecturers and students expressed shock over the incident, and decried the
incessant killings in the institution.
They called on the management to take urgent steps to address the ugly trend.
When contacted, KSU Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,
said the body had summoned an emergency meeting to look into the case of the
murdered lecturer.
Meanwhile, a 400 level Mathematical Science student of the school, Jimoh
Faruk, has also been killed by the cult group.
The student was killed, according to a source, around the dreaded Stadium Road on Saturday night.
Source: Vanguard
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