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College students protest lacking colleague in Ondo.
A whole lot of scholars of upper establishments of studying took to the streets of Ode Irele, the headquarters of Irele Native Authorities Space of the state, on Monday to protest towards the lacking of 1 Gideon Akindoye.
Akindoye went lacking on Monday, June 11, 2024, after going to his father’s farm, positioned between Igbobini and Ode Irele Communities. His whereabouts are unknown on the time of submitting this report.
Gideon was stated to have travelled house to fulfill his mother and father and later went to the farm along with his bike to reap cassava however but to return house since then, elevating suspicion that he should have been kidnapped on the farm.
Throughout the protest, the scholars, below the auspices of the Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students, referred to as on the state governor, Mr. Fortunate Aiyedatiwa, and the safety companies within the state to intervene and discover the lacking pupil.
Singing completely different solidarity songs, the scholars carried placards with numerous inscriptions reminiscent of ‘Deliver again Gideon lifeless or alive’, ‘Mr Governor, we want UR Assist,’ ‘Akindoyo Gideon lacking since eleventh June 2024, The place is him?’, ‘Gideon the place are you,’ amongst others.
Talking in the course of the protest, the senate President of NANS, Comrade Henry Olukunomo, who believed the lacking pupil was kidnapped, referred to as on his abductors to launch him lifeless or alive.
Olukunomo confirmed that the lacking pupil was a bonafide 300-level pupil of Laptop Engineering in Al-Hilmah College in Kwara State, towards a media report. He stated the scholars union had sufficient paperwork, confirming the studentship of Gideon as a pupil of the college.
He stated, “We’re calling on those that kidnap comrade Gideon to launch him to us, lifeless or alive. If he’s lifeless, they need to launch his physique to us to provide him a befitting burial, but when he’s alive, they need to launch him to alleviate his mother and father from pointless trauma.
“Now we have gathered right here to solidarise with the folks of Irele and Igbobini, and we’re utilizing this chance to name on the governor to finish the lingering disaster between these two communities. ”
The mom of the lacking pupil, Mrs Janet Akindoyo, stated the boy arrived in Irele on Sunday, June 10, and went to the farm to reap the next day, however he had not returned as much as the time of filling this report.
“He has not returned. The search celebration noticed his bike the place he parked it, however we haven’t seen him. I’m interesting to the safety and the folks to assist discover him,” she stated.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Funmilayo Odunlami, confirmed the lacking pupil incident however stated the command males had been within the forest searching for the lacking pupil.
“Our males are working within the forest searching for the particular person and investigation into the matter had begun,” the PPRO acknowledged
