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We are screaming, "we are shouting that something urgent be done to the incessant robberies going on Ile-Ife, Osun State. We have written countless letters and engaged critical authorities all to NO AVAIL. Something needs to be done urgently, or they face the wrath of students.

https://x.com/GreatIfe_SU/status/1927992714680770972?t=ptJOCkALr3alC8BRJxZgBQ&s=08

Good morning. I want to give a big shoutout to Ile Ife, the Policemen, NDLEA, and EFCC officials who arrest students but can not come out to protect us when there is a robbery. Thank you, goal attained. I'm traumatized forever.

https://x.com/_derbieeeee/status/1927985745790136622?t=GoV_qE2kdsg61TTzXxENHw&s=08

OAU students lament robberies on off-campus residences

The Students’ Union of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has raised a distress call over what it describes as a terrifying surge in violent robberies targeting students off-campus.

In a press release issued on Wednesday, the Union said the security situation around student-populated areas in Ile-Ife has deteriorated rapidly over the past few weeks, with over 30 robbery cases recorded in just two weeks, all involving students.

“Behind every case is a student who has been traumatised, brutalised, extorted, and left helpless. Phones are being stolen. Monies are being wiped from students’ bank accounts. Hostels are being broken into in the dead of night. And, even worse, students are being severely injured,” the union stated.

A particularly brutal case involved a student who was macheted on the head during a robbery attack at his hostel.

According to the union, the student is currently in critical condition and receiving treatment in a hospital.

The union also stated that only hours before the statement was released, four more robberies were reported in three separate locations across the town.

“One student lost her phone. Another had his car stolen, and all the money in his account transferred, leaving him with nothing,” the Union said.

The statement, signed by Secretary General Babatimehin Kinfeosi and President Omoboriowo Isaac, stated that the students are now constantly afraid in their own homes, unsure whether they will be next.

Despite reaching out to the police after every incident, the Union says the response has been inadequate and ineffective.

“We have visited nearby police stations and even the Osun State Criminal Investigation Department. Yet, there has been no tangible improvement,” it stated.

The Union did not hold back in its demands for action, calling on the Federal Government, the Osun State Government, and local authorities to move quickly and decisively.

It urged the provision of patrol vehicles for police and Amotekun operatives, increased police presence in student areas, urgent intervention from the Ministries of Education to resolve the issue of on-campus accommodation, and more serious involvement from the university administration to protect students off-campus.

“The OAU Management must engage in active dialogue with relevant authorities to ensure better security for her students and consider tightening security arrangements for student hostels even outside campus,” the Union said.

The Union also issued a clear warning: if nothing changes, students will take to the streets.

“If these demands are not treated with the urgency and seriousness they deserve, we, the students of Great Ife, under the leadership of the Students’ Union, will have no choice but to escalate our actions, including but not limited to mass demonstrations and peaceful protests to express our growing frustrations and desperation.

“Students came here to learn, not to be hunted. We can no longer live in fear. We will defend ourselves with every voice and means available to us. We demand action. We demand safety. We demand justice.”

The Union copied the statement to top officials, including President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Inspector General of Police, Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke, the Vice-Chancellor of OAU, and the Ooni of Ife, among others.

However, in response to the rising tension, the university management clarified its position, saying it is not responsible for student safety outside the university premises.

Public Relations Officer of OAU, Mr. Abiodun Olanrewaju said, “I am not aware of any robbery incident that happened on campus. But if there are robbery incidents that happened outside the campus within the residential areas of our students, the school management does not have enough security operatives to cover any student outside the campus.”

He explained that while the university sympathises with affected students, securing off-campus areas is a job for the police, not the institution.

“It is the statutory responsibility of security operatives to police everybody including those on campus but particularly, any student that stays outside campus should be protected and report robbery cases to the Nigerian police. They are the ones that can handle that,” he said.

Mr. Olanrewaju noted that many students live in areas shared with non-students, including local residents and landlords.

“We cannot actually single out students that an area was robbed where students are staying. They are our students, we sympathise with them. The management is incapacitated to extend security within the campus to them there. We can only speak for any incident that happens to them within the campus premises,” he said.

He used the opportunity to appeal directly to the authorities, saying, “I want to use this medium to appeal to the Nigerian police and other security agencies to please help us intensify their patrol towards the areas where most of our students are residing.”

Efforts to reach the Osun Police Spokesperson, Abiodun Ojelabi, proved futile as calls and messages sent to him were not responded to.

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God guide and protect them.

H

The spirit of Afrika

Helinues kindly stop

GOFRONT:
God guide and protect them.

This is the problem with the average Nigerian man on the street.
God is being called to intervene in situations that humans created and they can fix.

Allow God to breathe for once.

Rubbish.

Sigh... Tinubu will handle economy, and Shettima will handle security.


Seems both men have forgotten their job descriptions.

Ekosodin, Osasogie and Uwasota come to my mind. Who no go no know.

Angelfrost:
Sigh... Tinubu will handle economy, and Shettima will handle security.


Seems both men have forgotten their job descriptions.

What will the man from Bangladesh handle??

I hope the dancing governor can hear😁😄
I come in peace o ✌️

SUNNINO:
Ekosodin, Osasogie and Uwasota come to my mind. Who no go no know.

Uniben rubbish

Arise and Defend yourselves. We don't have a govt in Nigeria and every citizen is responsible to themselves

Many things dey happen for this naija o

nlfpmod:
https://x.com/GreatIfe_SU/status/1927992714680770972?t=ptJOCkALr3alC8BRJxZgBQ&s=08



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Protection for tenure of political office holders in Nigeria has become the main job of law enforcement agencies.

The police and the Vigilante in that community should work together to bring those armed robbers down.


You will be surprised with the face of those criminals once they finally got caught

eniolorunfe:
I hope the dancing governor can hear😁😄
I come in peace o ✌️

Governors are not in charge of the law enforcement agencies in their states.

onuman:
Governors are not in charge of the law enforcement agencies in their states.

But you were among those accusing Sanwo of killing protesters in Lekki Toll Gate

OkayDaddy:
But you were among those accusing Sanwo of killing protesters in Lekki Toll Gate

Show me a line where I accused Sanwo or get down in shame.
Are you in a dream? Or you just wrote for writing sake?

The sophisticated ones are enjoying ...


Trust me ! The Ronus

Mak the State Govt give the Area Amotekun if the Police can't help ..

No love even for Ile Ife again

This are things local or state Police would solve easily

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We're safe here

omoredia:
No love even for Ile Ife again

e shock me too

These are signs that security agencies are not true to the people, only for what they benefit from

colour boys at work dues need to be paid

They can only try that in town 'gboro.. under the nose of Ooni. Why na.

They dare not rob on the campus of greatest of the greatest, Great Ife!

I remember how we faced some robbers off-campus one midnight during my undergraduate days in Ife.

The first time i used the big turning stick my mama bought for me.

Where are the so called Amotekuns?
Or were they created to tackle fulani herdsmen only?

Kai