Police in Osun State have confirmed that a 19-year-old undergraduate at Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo State, affiliated to the Obafemi Awolowo University, Azeez Akintola is missing.
Akintola is a 300L Chemistry student of the institution who lived with his parents at Ilode, Ile-Ife, Osun State. He reportedly strolled out around 6pm on October 25 but has not returned home since then
His father, Kolawole Akintola, who spoke to newsmen on the telephone, said Azeez had told him that he was going somewhere within the neighbourhood.
He said the family became apprehensive when he did not return home several hours later.
Kolawole stated, “He works with a man as a PoS agent at Sabo. He came back from work that day and around 6pm, he left home again. He told me he would come back soon. When I asked him where he was going, he said he just wanted to see someone within the vicinity. He was not specific. We waited till night but didn’t see him.
“We called his boss to find out if he returned to the shop but he told us he didn’t see him. The following day, we started searching around for him. All his friends we know said they didn’t see him or hear from him.”
The father said a week before his son went missing, robbers had attacked the family and carted phones, including Azeez’s.
He added, “That was why there was no phone with him. No one has phoned in to inform us about his whereabouts. He is running a degree programme at the Adeyemi College of Education in affiliation to OAU. He is a 300-level Chemistry student. We reported the case at Agaun Police Station and the police said have radioed all the stations across the state.”
The spokesperson for police in Osun State, Yemisi Opalola, confirmed that Akintola has been declared missing, calling on whoever has information on his whereabouts to report to nearest police state.
She wrote on Monday, “this is to inform the general public that, the male person whose photograph shown on the screen left home since 29th October, 2020 to unknown destination and till now he has not return home nor seen.
“Abdulazeez Akintola ‘M’ lives at Obaloran Akintola Street, Ilode Quarters, Ile-Ife, Osun State”
