The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan (UI) branch, yesterday berated security operatives for having not arrested the killers of Prof. Isaac Ajewole.
The union said it was unfortunate that four weeks after the incident, security operatives were yet to arrest the perpetrators, adding that it spoke volumes about the state of insecurity in the nation.
Ajewole, a professor of social and environmental forestry, was killed in his Olororo, Ojo, Ibadan residence by yet-to-be-identified assailants on June 5 evening.
A statement by ASUU Chairperson, Ayoola Akinwole, after a Special Congress held in honour of Ajewole, noted that the implication of the incident and the inability of security operatives to track down the Professor’s killers was a challenge to the government and the entire security apparatus of Nigeria.
It said: “Today, the ASUU-UI, and indeed all men of goodwill are dissatisfied that up till now, the security operatives in Oyo State in particular and Nigeria in general, have not been able to unravel the identity of those deadly assailants.”
“Our union hereby calls upon the good people of Nigeria to continue to demand accountability from the government concerning the spate and series of deaths that have remained uninvestigated and/or unresolved nay, unaccounted for over the past decades.
“We, therefore, seize this opportunity to urge Adebola Hamzat, the new Commissioner of Police in Oyo State and indeed the newly decorated Acting Inspector General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, to without delay, set up a high-powered investigating team of officers and crack detectives to fish out the criminals from their hideout anywhere they may be, to bring them to justice.”
