The Police in Osun State have arrested a private driver identified as Lasisi Sodiq Segun for crushing a final year student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife to death.
Segun’s arrest was disclosed in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer of the University, Abiodun Olarewaju.
The entire citadel of learning has been thrown into mourning following the tragic death of the final year student of the Department of Foreign Languages who was crushed to death by the alleged reckless driver on Thursday.
Olarewaju said the student, identified as Esu Rita Ema, with Matriculation Number FRM/2019/041 was knocked down and killed by a Lexus car with Abuja Registration Number ABJ 427 LQ driven by Segun.
The student, who was said to be coming to the campus to submit her final year project to her supervisor, was crossing the Ife – Ibadan axis of road at the campus gate when the accident happened.
He said, “The members of the Federal Road Safety Corps came to recover the corpse of the student and deposited same at the mortuary of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex at about 12:35pm while the Officers of the Nigerian Police have arrested the driver for investigation and further necessary action.”
Meanwhile, Olarewaju stated that the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire, has sent a condolence message to the parents of the deceased through the Dean, Students Affairs, Professor Adeolu Odedire.
According to him, Bamire who was visibly devastated said, “If it is very sad to lose a domestic animal, how can anyone quantify the loss of a child, most especially a grown up child who was a young, promising adult with a lot potentials. A final year student for that matter.”
The VC, therefore, appealed to the parents, siblings, family, friends and classmates of the deceased to take solace in God, adding that “the Lord will give us all the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss.”
