The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan (UI) Chapter, has urged the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, to assist the Oyo State Police Command with all logistics needed to unravel and arrest the killers of a professor in the institution, Prof. Opeyemi Ajewole.

Ajewole until he was killed was a lecturer in the Department of Social and Environmental Forestry Development

He was killed by gunmen on Monday, June 5, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

Speaking on the incident, the UI ASUU Chairman, Prof. Ayo Akinwole, in a statement issued on Thursday, called on President Bola Tinubu to take passionate interest and ensure the security system unmasks the faces behind the murder of the professor.

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Akinwole stated: “The heart of every ASUU-UI member is 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, Prof. Opeyemi Ajewole, and charge the security operatives to track down and apprehend the perpetrators of this dastardly act, with a view to unraveling the motive behind the incident, as well as bringing the perpetrators to book.”

According to the UI ASUU Chairman, the only tribute which the death of Ajewole deserves is that his killers are brought to justice and that Nigerians’ lives should matter to Tinubu’s presidency

“The union wishes to use this teary occasion of Prof. Ajewole’s sudden death to call on the Nigerian state to resolutely tackle the problem of insecurity in the country, apprehend the killers of Prof. Ajewole and punish them most appropriately,“ he added.

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