ALUMNUS RECOUNTS KILLING OF FIVE OAU STUDENTS BY CULTISTS

A tweep and alumnus of the Obafemi Awolowo University, #Plumbline, has shared his experience of the day five students of the university were killed by cultists in 1999.

He shared his experience on the anniversary of the killing which shook the university community. 

Plumbline, a geologist tweeted, "July 9, 1999, I had just returned from Lagos, having gone home to treat Malaria. I was in Block 3, Room 138 Faj Hall...early hours of July 10, Faro Idris, the then PRO of the then proscribed SUG frantically ran to the Faj PA System to warn students that we were under attack #OAU5

"Students were unfortunately still upset with the Union then because we had been sent home for over 8 months. Faro’s move was heroic, considering he had a target on his back at that very moment. Midway into his announcement, a shot rang out. #OAU5.

"We turned off our lights. That would be the saving grace for Tolex D, the Director of Socials, who had ran into the bathroom, unfortunately, that’s what marked the end of Eviano Ekelemun, a Final Year Medical student, who was stepping out of same, he got shot in the thigh #OAU5."

Revealing more details, Plumbline reflected that the killings caused many students to renounce cultism. 

He said, "Rather than cause fear and bring back cultism to OAU, the horrid nature of the events caused many to renounce cultism."

According to Plumbline, who is also a poet, the casualties include, Eviano Ekelemun, Yemi Ajiteru, Iwilade George aka AFRIKA, Babatunde Oke Sabo and Efe Godspower Ekede.

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