The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has handed over suspects accused of responsibility for the murder of a final-year student, Okoli Aishe, of the institution.
Aishe was said to have been killed over alleged phone theft.
The Public Relations Officer of the university, Mr Abiodun Olarewaju, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, stated on Wednesday that the suspects had been handed over to the police.
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He said the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Simeon Bamire, and the entire community were saddened over the murder of the student.
“Nobody knows that students can go to that level of indiscipline to cost the life of their mate,” he said.
The spokesman stressed that the suspects should have adhered to the constitutional provisions and the university’s regulations rather than taking the law into their hands.
Olarewaju said the university had set up a committee to unravel the circumstances leading to the gruesome murder of the student.
Aishe, a final-year student of Civil Engineering Department was clobbered to death in a mob action after some students accused him of cell phone theft.
