The National Association of Nigerian Students has called for the prosecution of students allegedly involved in the death of 500 Obafemi Awolowo University students, Okoli Ahinze, who was reportedly bullied to death over alleged theft.
The students' bodies were found stressed that those involved in the mafia action should be identified and brought to justice.
Ahinze was bullied to death for allegedly stealing the phone.
Prime9jaOnline had previously reported that the deceased was beaten by the mafia at Awolowo Hall and allegedly was taken to Obafemi Awolowo Ile-Ife University Teaching Hospital after complications.
The student was found to have allegedly stolen a mobile phone at Awo Hall.
The student body responded in a statement signed by their national public Liaison officer Giwa Yisa Temitope frowned at the jungle justice reportedly inflicted on the deceased by the mafia.
Temitope described the action as shameful but stressed that the body will not yield until justice is done.
The statement read in part: "During our interaction with the Dean, Student Affairs Department and the institution's CSO, we understood that the death was the result of mismanagement of a case that would have been best dealt with by the most legal means." can.
"We were also told that, contrary to the briefing rounds, at no point was the University's Rapid Response Group called upon to take the deceased to the health center before he gave up the ghost.
"Indeed, as a student body that disapproves of crime in any form, we note that it was very wrong to have called the security unit of the university to take the deceased to the health center before he gave up the ghost, but the leadership of the student association should have him after handover by the security committee of Awolowo Hall, where the theft is said to have taken place to the health center immediately so that he can be given the necessary treatment, considering the injury he sustained as a result of the beating he received at Awolowo Hall.
"On his Thigh is a very deep cut and it appears as if an object was used to write O on his thigh.
"During interaction with the CP, Mr. Kehinde Longe who the OK Homicide Division of the State Criminal Police Office invited us also to update on their efforts to date, we have made our position known that we will not stand in any way in the way of justice and will cooperate and cooperate with the police force to ensure that all those involved in the murder are brought to justice.”
Temitope further remarked, "The deed is done, but the only favor we can render in commemorating the dead is to ensure that justice is served appropriately to serve the deterrence of others.
"We have instructed the institution of the police to ensure that the people to whom the deceased was handed over in the Studentenwerk building are also invited and interrogated, as this will serve the cause of the investigation.
"The students in custody for almost eight hours To stop before he gave up the ghost, despite the apparent fact that he required medical attention as a result of the beating he was offered at Awolowo Hall, is in itself a guilt given the provisions of the Criminal Code that mandates one to prevent the commission of a crime as far as it is in his power. A crime has just been committed.
"We declare once again that we frown upon any form of jungle justice, not even in our universities. Mob means that people and everyone involved in this shameful and criminal act must be identified and brought to justice.
"Great Ife remains the bastion of the vibrant and virile student union in Nigeria and the interests of the students must come first."