I was on campus this afternoon to meet my students (EKSU-MOCPED) when the dastard act of the killing of Shafi was carried out by boys suspected to be cultists. His head was bursted by the gun shoots. He died on the spot.
Little later, the school ambulance in the company of the police officers attached to the Odo-Noforija Police Station took his corpse to the mortuary. And that was the end of the boy who just graduated from the college.
Everybody was in a rude shock mood. The gists went on. The ‘boys’ went into the thin air through the route they took in – ‘the jungle’. The security unit could be battling with fear of sanctions and queries. To me, nothing of such. They did what they should have done. Closed all the entrances immediately and searching thoroughly all entrants and exiters. They did well. These boys could even break the Berlin Wall to achieve their aims.
The management went into jaw-jaw session. I later gathered that nothing of such has ever occurred on campus since its birth about 25 years ago.
The boy (Shafi) was later identified as a former student of the college whose unfortunate killing only took place on campus. The perpetrators were likely to be outsiders and or former students as well.
All is well with MOCPED. Parents should not entertain any fear as admission into the NCE Programmes is still in progress.
The shock brought back my memories of 1992/93 when Omoyele Sowore was abducted and taken away by rival cult members at the New Halls of the University of Lagos, during the struggle of ‘Abacha Must Go’ to unknown destination. We later heard that he was injected with poisonous ‘brands’. And also, when a cultist was roasted alive in a Peugeot 504 car in front of the Sodeinde Hall, UNILAG in 1993. The two incidents were gory indeed.
I don’t know what would be running on the minds of the boy’s parents (Shafi). His friends have lost him forever. His colleagues can’t see him again.
I’m not talking about his past now. He could have been a ‘hot’ and or ‘bad’ boy before his waterloo. My concerns and feelings are the dark he threw his parents into. Receiving the news of a sudden death of one’s son is not palatable enough.
Cultism remains a ‘NO GO AREA’ for our children.
The college is putting everything in place to see that learning becomes interesting and easy for all. Transmutation is on the way. If it finally comes, cutting edges researches and policies would be properly harnessed within the community. Of course, there would be more job opportunities for our youths.
It was a rude shock indeed !!!
Dr. Abdulkareem Onakoya (PhD, FNIMC), 08026621805.