- Okedayo, a senior lecturer at the Ondo State University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH), Okitipupa, was found dead in a bush on September 9, 2019.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the police and other security agencies to fish out those behind the killing of Professor Gideon Okedayo.
Okedayo, a senior lecturer at the Ondo State University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH), Okitipupa, was found dead in a bush on September 9, 2019.
Chairman of the OSUSTECH chapter of ASUU, Dipo Akomolafe, made the demand in a statement on Tuesday in Okitipupa.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okedayo was kidnapped on September 5 at Akoko Junction on the Igala-Auchi Road in Edo State.
The incident is another sad tale on the precarious security situation on major highways in Nigeria, where many people have been abducted and murdered in recent times.
Akomolafe said the Edo State Police Command and other security agencies did not do enough to rescue the lecturer from his abductors.
The ASUU chairman added that security agencies also failed to contact Okedayo’s family members on developments on the abduction.
He described the death of the lecturer as shocking and mysterious as the abductors never contacted any family member or associate of the murdered professor for ransom until his decomposing body was later found.
The unionist said the death of Okedayo had exposed the inefficiency and ineptitude of the security agencies as no information on deceased whereabouts was given until his death.
Akomolafe said Okedayo’s demise was one death too many, recalling that another lecturer of the school, Professor Adegboyega Obadofin, was roasted in an inferno sometime in 2018 without help from security agencies.
“Professor Okedayo’s death has exposed the nakedness of our security system, the inefficiency and ineptitude of the nation’s security apparatus.
“It was clear that despite the efforts of the university administration and the union to see to his quick release, there was nothing to show that the security agencies we reported to did anything towards finding him.
