A 300 level accounting student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Abiodun Babalola, died after being attacked by armed robbers in his hostel.
The university management in a statement released stated that “the year three student died as a result of injuries he sustained during an attack on the Adam and Eve hostel, an out of campus students’ residential hostel, along Parakin – Ede road axis of Ile-Ife.
The release also stated that the students were attacked in the early hours of Saturday with dangerous weapons by some unknown persons who inflicted varying degrees of injuries on them before carting away their money, phones and other valuables.
There have however been different reactions as regards the true cause of the death of the student. Majority of students of the university have claimed that negligence on the part of the university hospital led to the death of the student.
A student who pleaded anonymity said the boy was taken to the university health centre and later to the university teaching hospital where he was refused treatment because he had no ID card with him.
He said ” When Biodun was injured, we called the Police but they didn’t show up, eventually he was taken to the health centre where they later transferred him to the university teaching hospital. There, we heard he was denied treatment because he could not produce his ID card. Imagine that, he was bleeding so bad but he wasn’t treated”.
Other reactions have also trailed the death of the students on twitter with a trending hashtag #oaulivesmatter, where students and twitter users condemn the death of the student and share their ordeal with the security apparatus and university management in the past.
See reactions below:
Just yesterday, a part 2 student of Obafemi Awolowo University died after he was injured during a robbery that occurred between 1-3am, he was rushed to the the school's hospital, they didn't attend to him until 5 HOURS LATER because there was NO ID CARD on him.
Nigeria is fuvked! pic.twitter.com/mP2bCL2eub— hashcode 哈希碼 (@_hashcode) December 23, 2018
He should have been home eating chicken with his family like most of us are, but he had to stay back for a test on Saturday, from 3am till 8am during the test, they now came to ask the class if anyone knew him to confirm his studentship, he gave up the ghost around that time…
— hashcode 哈希碼 (@_hashcode) December 23, 2018
He could have been treated easily, he head severe cuts from a cutlass, not even bullets no, just some disinfection, cleaning, and patching up would have helped, but they watched him lose blood and slowly leave earth, somebody's child!!! Ha!!!!
— hashcode 哈希碼 (@_hashcode) December 23, 2018
The incident that took the life of an Accounting student of OAU should not go unnoticed! The rate at which the University expose the life of the students to danger is getting alarming! We need more hostels… #build_more_hostels#OAUlivesmatter
— Zayeed♥️???? (@akanbi_akinlolu) December 24, 2018
*Hours after student's murder in a robbery attack, another students' area in town has been attacked by armed robbers in the early hours of today with hours of sporadic shooting at Oduduwa Estate along ede road, ile-ife.*#oaulivesmatter
— NIGERIA VAR???????? (@olowogbade_ope) December 24, 2018
My neighbour's head was opened with an axe after 2 gun shuts to his door at grinland hostel ede road some sessions ago and till now Oau security grew deaf ears to the matter. We had to rush him to SDA hospital to save him. #oaulivesmatter
— Mayor (@okafor_chimezie) December 24, 2018
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