- EFCC operatives arrested 70 students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife in Osun state in a midnight raid
- The students’ hostels were reportedly invaded by the EFCC operatives around 2 a.m. and their phones and cars were taken away
The Management of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife has revealed that it does not yet know how many students were taken into custody by EFCC agents during the midnight raid.
Remember that on Wednesday, November 1, at around one in the morning, EFCC agents raided a dorm and took over seventy students into custody, transporting them to Ibadan, Oyo State, in white buses.
In a phone interview with The Nation, the organization’s public relations officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, stated that the anti-graft agents’ raid of the hostel took place off the school’s grounds.
He said: “The University has sent delegates to the office of EFCC, we want to be sure of the numbers of our students that were arrested by the operatives.
“We want to be sure that our students are not unduly harassed or intimidated nor abused. The management has mandated us to go to Ibadan and find out because the welfare of students is important to us.
“We want to go and see by ourselves so that we can come back and give the management necessary feedback. We are just going there now, it is not only our students that are outside Ife, so we wouldn’t want a situation where people will say all those who were arrested are our students whereas maybe some of them are not our students. We want to know who we want to fight for, who we want to defend and protect.