A lecturer with Kogi State University,
KSU, Anyigba, Associate Professor Justice
Olurotimi Otitolaye, has been reported killed by
cult members in the institution.
Vanguard gathered that Professor Otitolaye, who
had been championing war against examination
malpractice in the institution, was abducted
around Stadium Road, near the campus on Friday
night, on his way to a supermarket.
His bullet-riddled body was found in the early of
hours of Sunday at Ejule, which is about 8
kilometres away from the school.
The cultists were said to have fired sporadic
shots into the air to scare away people living
around the area before taking the lecturer to an
unknown destination.
The murdered lecturer, simply called Otis, was a
renowned agriculturist, who was a former pre-
degree director and a lecturer in Faculty of
Agriculture in the Department of Agric Economics
and Extension at the university.
Otis, who was said to be a jovial, nice and well-
respected person, also held a chieftaincy title
from his home town, Kabba, headquarters of
Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of the state.
The body of the lecturer has been deposited at
the university teaching hospital.
Some lecturers and students expressed shock
over the incident, and decried the incessant
killings in the institution.
They called on the management to take urgent
steps to address the ugly trend.
When contacted, KSU Chairman of Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU, said the body had
summoned an emergency meeting to look into the
case of the murdered lecturer.
Meanwhile, a 400 level Mathematical Science
student of the school, Jimoh Faruk, has also been
killed by the cult group.
The student was killed, according to a source,
around the dreaded Stadium Road on Saturday
night.
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