OAU Five is the name given to the five understudies of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, who were killed during a progression of shootings and murders which occurred on the school grounds on Saturday, July 10, 1999. It brought about the demise of five understudies and left a lot more understudies of the school harmed. It was executed by a crew of around 40 individuals from the Black Ax Confraternity branch at the college, as a team with a portion of their partners from different schools. They attacked the Awolowo Hall of the college at around 4.30am, clad in dark garments, with their appearances covered up by veils, and assaulted understudies with firearms and cleavers. A previous President of the school's Students' Union Government, Lanre Adeleke, prominently known as Legacy, who barely got away from death as he was likewise an objective, educates BOLA BAMIGBOLA regarding the episode

When you recollect an occurrence of more than 20 years prior where five understudies of Obafemi Awolowo University were killed without hesitating by faction individuals, what strikes a chord?

All things considered, it is the miserable story of a nation that isn't yet evolved, where equity is as yet tricky, where everything isn't right, where no one is considered responsible, and where the security of lives and property isn't guaranteed. It says a great deal regarding the degeneration in the framework. Is it the legal executive you need to discuss or the police, scholarly organizations, bad habit chancellors, etc? Discussing the executing of Afrika (George Iwilade) and the four different understudies, we have found out about the individuals who participated in it with realities to back it up. We need our (OAU) Students' Union Government to return to it so Nigerians can have certainty that we are building a general public that is ok for us all.

For the individuals who didn't have the foggiest idea what prompted the killings, how could it occur?

It was at a period when we were coming out of the military time and cultism was for all intents and purposes in most different schools yet not in Ife (OAU). We had an association in Ife that was very radical and didn't permit the impact of cultists to flourish on the grounds. Beside that, we had bad habit chancellors taking requests from the military junta and similarly not law based. So it was a period when the Students' Union Government set up solid protection from the school's bad habit chancellor.

The obstruction was about essential things: battling for welfarism, privileges of understudies to join together, talk and communicate, interest for whatever they required, responsibility, and against unpleasant school expenses and the preferences. In an ordinary society where things are done well, such things would not have been an issue. In such places, a board of trustees would take a gander at them and make the wisest decision but since of the state of affairs around then, it was the utilization of power that won. Understudies' association administrators were being removed and the contention was resounding through the grounds. It takes a college with a dynamic and dynamic understudies' association that is without any impedance as far as cultism to have a school where cultism would not win and that was what we had in Ife.

Cultists were attempting to have their way into the grounds and the school specialists made a road for that and in the long run bolstered them persistently. I will disclose to you that we initially captured four cultists on March 7, 1999. They were gathering for commencement and they had a few understudies who were from different schools who needed to go along with them in the inception.

Prior to the commencement, an understudy crashed into the vehicle leave where they were assembling along the street and sprinkled water on their vehicle. They followed the understudy to Mozambique Hall and beat him up severely. But since we had a virile understudies' association government, the understudy revealed the issue at the Union Executives' Block and we needed to move round to know where those understudies originated from however tragically they were not living in any lobby of habitation. They were inhabiting the staff quarters where instructors should be living; they were living in a 'young men' quarters' intended for a speaker. We discovered that the 'young men' quarters' was bolted from behind however when those that went there were leaving, they saw that there was development inside the house. Along these lines, they went into the house and captured a few young men there, and what they discovered stunned everyone. They discovered four assault rifles, among a few different weapons and ammo under the bed. So it was glaring that they were arranging a few things and they must be taken to Awolowo Hall in light of the fact that the issue was past attack of a kindred understudy.

All in all, what occurred at Awolowo Hall?

Willfully, those understudies that were gotten begun confessing.They said they were on the grounds for inception and the weapons were for their introduction. One of them referenced the name of an extremely ranking staff part and said he thought about their exercises and was really their supporter. By then, there was no chance we could have given them over to the school specialists, so we took them to the police region order at Moore in Ife.

Since a ranking staff part was ensnared, we revealed the case to the school the executives with the goal that they could explain a few things. We felt in a scholarly network, that was the most befitting method of tending to the issue. What we needed was for the individual to upbraid the relationship he supposedly had with the folks that were captured and permit the standard of law to follow all the way through. In any case, lamentably, the school the executives speedily shut down the school and asked understudies to leave for good, which indicated that something was fishy.

You would not accept that the arrangement of understudies that were kept at Moore had been discharged before we returned to class. We understood the school specialists were behind their discharge and toward the day's end, we discovered that their preliminary at the Magistrates' Court was held between March 24 and 31, 1999, which I knew to be the quickest criminal case at any point attempted as around then at the court.

All weapons and other proof saw with them were asked as devastated by the justice. At the point when we came back to class in June 1999, we needed to take it up with the school organization since we anticipated that the school should present sure the defense was followed up and that the influenced understudies were ousted or suspended for being seen as associated with cultism. Be that as it may, the understudies were everywhere, moving round the grounds and in any event, going to addresses. We needed to compose a few public statements to challenge the school specialists that it should not to be so.

How could the guilty parties we secured be moving openly with no important preliminary? We discovered after July 10 from the legal board of enquiry that they were really not given any preliminary as they had guaranteed. They were really given letters after July 10. What's more, in the end, they completed their assault on July 10. What was glaring was that we opposed the assault after the killing of five understudies by following them in the early hours of that day and capturing them. The admissions those got made that day made it glaring that the ranking staff part bolstered them, even by offering cash to them from the bursary.

It was authenticated by the treasurer that cash was given out for security activity to limited, who was affirmed to have gotten the cash and offered it to one of the supposed cultists who originated from Lagos. All the proof was there and the legal board of enquiry was perplexed.

It was significantly all the more glaring when the security officials of the school were asked how the cultists had the option to get away from when they came so ahead of schedule, around 4.30am, they couldn't utter a word since in opposition to the standard, the college shut its (principle) door at 12 PM and didn't open it until 6am. The cultists went out through that equivalent entryway they came in before 6am and had the option to get away. Strangely, the college had security devices like walkie-talkies and radio sets that were utilized to convey at the lobbies of living arrangement, quarters, fundamental security unit, Senate Building and the door. The walkie-talkies were associated and they all labored for 24 hours.

It will amaze you that when the security officials were posed inquiries before the legal board of enquiry, they guaranteed that every one of their batteries were level simultaneously, which must be a major untruth. All we required around then was for an administration that was resolved to guarantee that equity was done however lamentably that didn't occur.

What jobs did you and some others play after the understudies were captured at the young men's quarters?

I was not in school when they were caught. I was at a program in Lagos State, yet Afrika (Iwilade) and some others were the ones who captured those understudies. At the point when I returned, they gave me the report and revealed to me why they needed to hand them over to the police at Moore. Also, to me, it was the best thing that they could have done. As the President of the Students' Union Government, I needed to send a letter to the school the executives, just for the bad habit chancellor to close down the school.

What in the end befell the weapons found with the understudies?

The judge decided that the four automatic rifles ought to be come back to either the arsenal of the police or that of the Nigerian Army; I'm not very sure at this point. He likewise requested that different weapons ought to be devastated and that the young men ought to be discharged. The preliminary was closed inside eight days; I have never observed that in my life.

Would you be able to recall what occurred on the day the five understudies were killed nearby?

Those young men discovered their way once more into the grounds in June after the school continued. Also, directly from the time we saw them nearby, we began cautioning the college that we were seeing the folks they asserted they had suspended. They were a danger to the harmony we appreciated nearby and most definitely, equity had not been finished. We had a few projects on July 7 and 9; we had some recognition programs to pay tribute to the late Kudirat Abiola and some others. We welcomed bunches of

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OP please can you edit this writeup? It causes a headache trying to read it the way it currently is

The story does not add up abeg

Oga , with dis kain grammar, ur blog cannot last one month!

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Even though I know the story but your writing is so disorganised , disjointed and uncoordinated.please check your grammar and spellings as well as punctuation.it certainly cannot make sense to those who don't have an idea of the story

Some people are destined to be failures in this life. The op is one of them. Such an idiot. Just look at the nonsense he is doing in the name of 'blogging'.

Mumu.

I still remember that day vividly. I was then an undergraduate in Ife.

Worst writeup in Nairaland's history.

Trying to use grammar when you don't even know how to place words. And this is an undergraduate?

Nigeria is finished!

lawani:
I still remember that day vividly. I was then an undergraduate in Ife.

I'm still an undergraduate in OAU.
must have been a horrifying and tensed time for everyone then

The day was a memorable day in the history of OAU. The incident showed that some Nigerians are above the law because it witnessed high level of injustice and cover-up.

Great Ife, the only University in Nigeria with a strong aluta spirit