cogitoErgo: Terrible, that is how I could describe that time! I actualy went to read over-night at the law faculty that time and I did not know of the attack until morning while coming back to Awo Hall(the epicenter of the attack), my hostel.
I lost a friend to the cultist, at Fajuyi Hall. Eviano, that was his name, a very briliant medical student.

gunuvi: It was a very terrible experience. Afrika was a close activist and comrade. Miss him and others so much.

cogitoErgo:
Terrible, terrible, terrible! Africa(Iwilade) was shot on the head, apparently in his sleep, on his bed in Awo hall!

Ola Johnson:
I learnt that after he was shot axe and machete were used on him. His mattress and parts of wall of his room were covered with his blood. As a mark of respect, the blood spill remained on the wall until the Secretary-General of the Students' Union for 2007/08 session, John Etebong aka John Pillar repainted the room which is block 8, named July 10 Secretariat, in Obafemi Awolowo Hall

Tolexander: On the day of their burial, i was in lagere, ife, and saw how students were packed in buses and cars cursing wale omole and the killers from OAUTHC to the campus via the sabo-lagere road.

May their souls rest in peace.

July 10 is indeed an unforgettable day in the history of OAU.

SLIDE waxie: How will u say a VC sent in killers?

Demdem:
Yeah the beginning of the end of Omole as CV

Ola Johnson: It's exactly 14 years that cultists attacked Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, killing no fewer than 10 students. Prominent among those killed was the Secretary-General of the Students' Union, George Iwilade aka Afrika (founder of Afrika Forward Movement AFORM). It was said that the cultists struck in the early hours of the day after the initiation rites of members of the Keggites Club in the dining room of the Obafemi Awolowo Hall in the university had been concluded. No sooner had the initiation rites ended, and people retired to their rooms than the cultists struck. They were said to have sporadically shot which made students run, as cult attack and shooting were unusual on campus.


Share your experience of what you saw that day or what you were told. And how true was the claim that the cultists were sent by the then VC.

Moderators, front page.

cogitoErgo:
hmmm, I actually did not hear of any machete cut on Africa! but the close range shot definitly will have his blood splatered all over and his bed was definitly deeply soaked in his blood, infact those who saw his body immediatly after the shooting said his face was completly unrecognisable!