A 300-level Computer Engineering student of Al-Hikmah University, Igbaja in Kwara State, Akindoyo Gideon, has gone missing in the Irele council area of Ondo State after going to his parent’s farm.
Gideon had not returned home after going to his farm located at Lumeko village located between Igbobini and Ode Irele Communities in the Ese Odo and Irele council area of the state.
The victim was said to have travelled to meet with his parents and later went to the farm with his motorcycle to harvest cassava.
However, his motorcycle was later discovered on the farm while his whereabouts remained unknown
A statement by the National Association of Nigerian Students urged the state security agencies to find the missing student.
The association, however, linked the missing of 30-year-old Gideon to the lingering communal crisis between Irele and Igbobini Communities, calling on the leaders of the two communities to find the missing student dead or alive.
According to the association’s leader, Henry Okunomo, the community reported that the student’s disappearance coincided with an attack by the Igbobini community, resulting in destroyed homes and properties.
“Information gathered from the National President of Irele Local Government Students and a community leader, Dr. Adekugbe Erik, showed the student had travelled home to gather foodstuffs from his community, only to be abducted while working on his father’s farm.
“The community leader reported that the student’s disappearance coincided with an attack by the Igbobini community, resulting in destroyed homes and properties.
“We categorically demand that the leadership of both Irele and Igbobini communities produce the student, either dead or alive, within the next 72 hours
”Failure to do so will compel us to relocate the NANS secretariat to the affected communities, where we will remain until the student’s safe return is secured,” it said.
The students also called on the state governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, to intervene and to resolve the lingering crisis between the two communities.
The mother of the abducted student, Mrs Janet Akindoyo, who explained that Gideon has not returned after going to the farm on June 11, appealed to the security agencies to help her find her son.
”He has not returned, search party saw his motorcycle where he parked it but we haven’t seen him. I’m appealing to the security and the people to help find him,” she appealed.
The State Police spokesperson, Funmi Odunlami confirmed the abduction of the student adding that investigation has commenced on the matter and search parties sent to the forest to look for the missing student.
Ondo State: University Student Goes Missing In Parent’s Farm is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
