Cadet Officers Murder Final Year Student

A part four Psychology student of the Ondo State owned
Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Olumuyiwa Ewarawon, has been
allegedly murdered by a suspected para-military organization operating in the
University.

While the University authorities responded by proscribing
all para-military organizations in the institution, it was reported late
yesterday that two of the suspects had been arrested.

The deceased according to report was the only son of his
aged mother.

It was gathered that the deceased, who lived in a private
hostel outside the school campus, was reportedly attacked by suspected cadet
officers.

However, the family of the deceased is insisting that the
culprits who allegedly killed their son should be made to face the wrath of the
law.

The family in a petition to the Ondo State Commissioner of
Police, Mike Ogbodu, filed by the counsel to the deceased’s father, Chief
Goodluck Ibitoye Ewarawon, alleged that Olumuyiwa was attacked in his room at
Shanghai Hostel in Akungba by the armed gang of seven boys under the guise of
being student cadet officers.

The counsel to the family, Olufemi Meduoye, said: “The armed
assailants broke into Olumuyiwa’s room while he was asleep and attacked him,
thereafter, brutalized, bruised and inflicted on him fatal injuries from which
he fell into coma.

“The gang dumped Olumuyiwa’s body at the General Hospital,
Iwarooka Akoko before good samaritans brought the incident to the attention of
the family three days later.”

They said they took the comatose body of Olumuyiwa from the
hospital to Trauma Centre Ondo which instantly referred the case to Obafemi
Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife.

The family said the boy never came out of coma and died
later in the hospital.

They urged the Commissioner of Police to use his good office
to ensure a full investigation of the murder of Olumuyiwa by the suspected
Cadet Officers.

Also, they asked the authorities of the institution to look
at the activities of some armed gang who operated under the guise of
para-military to attack members of the public.

The family also asked the security forces and the state
government to be alert to the activities of such organizations with a view to
protecting the lives of innocent citizens.

The Police Image Maker, Femi Joseph, who confirmed the
incident said that the suspect is on the run and that detectives are on his
trail.

He, however, assured that the suspect would soon be
apprehended and made to face the law court.

Vanguard