FUNAAB management intensifies efforts at rescuing kidnapped student

The Management of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) has intensified efforts towards assisting security agencies rescue its abducted student, Toyinbo Olayinka, who was kidnapped on Saturday in a private farm at Abule Itoko, Odeda, about ten kilometres away from the campus.

In a statement on Monday by the institution's Head of Public Relations, Kola Adepoju, the management said it has reinforced its commitment by securing the support of other relevant stakeholders in a bid to strengthening the search and release of the kidnapped student.

The management enjoined students, parents, relations of the kidnapped student and the public in general to be calm and peaceful, and allow security agencies discharge their professional duties.

Meanwhile, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Kolawole Salako has admonished the executive members of the institution's students Union, who are on peaceful protest, to remain calm.

Olayinka is a self-sponsored indigent student who has been living and working in the farm where he was abducted for three years to eke a living and sustain his undergraduate programme in the university.