The Vice Chancellor of the University
of Ibadan, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has
given an account of how an
undergraduate of the school, Mayowa
Alaran, died last
Thursday which resulted in major
protests in the school.
Fellow students of the deceased had
alleged that their colleague who
slumped while watching a match,
passed away due to negligence by staff
of the school’s medical center.
Speaking with newsmen in the school
campus today May 13th, the Vice
Chancellor debunked the students
claims.
Read The VC Statement Below:-
“He carried out his normal activities
earlier on Wednesday, May 6, 2015.
Very early in the day, he attended the
Gymnastics practical with other
students in his Department (7.00 –
9.00 a.m.).
He later went to attend the Induction
Programme organized for fresh
students in his department.
He attempted to participate in a
football match between his
Department of Health Education and
Human Kinetics and the Department
of Library and Archival Studies
(LARIS) in the afternoon, but could
not due to the fact that he did not
train with his department’s team.
He thereafter returned to the faculty
to attend a GES class that held
between 4.00 – 6.00p.m.
It was from here that he later
returned to Independence Hall toy
watch a football match between
Barcelona and Bayern Munich relayed
in the Junior Common Room, JCR.
The match started at 7.45 pm that
evening. A generator was used to
supply electricity to the JCR due to
power outage that evening.
The generator was placed about 50
meters away from the JCR. The student
sat in the front row and was facing a
non-rotating standing fan in the JCR.
At about 30 minutes into the football
match, a student sitting next to him
observed that he had slumped and was
motionless.​
The concerned student promptly
carried him out of the JCR for
resuscitation with the assistance of
some medical students around who
gave him mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation” he said.

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