The management of the Osun State University, Osogbo, has broken silence on circumstances that led to the burning of a final year student of Department of Political Sciences by suspected cultists.
The University management said its security unit is working with the police to ensure that suspected cultists attacked the students identified as Victor Oke, at the Akede area of Osogbo, on Saturday, are arrested and prosecuted.
The Public Relations Officer, Ademola Adesoji, in a statement in Osogbo, on Monday, explained that Oke was being forced to join a cult, but refused.
Adesoji said the student failed to show up for his final paper on Saturday, and when his parents were contacted, it was discovered that he had been attacked by cultists.
He said, “It was gathered that some of the eyewitnesses living in the area where the incident happened reported that they heard Oke Ademiju Victor shouting that he was not joining their cult, while they continued to hit him with cutlasses, hard stones and attempted to burn him, partially succeeding before he was eventually rescued.
“We have since been following up with the parents and it is confirmed that he was rushed to the university’s teaching hospital for treatment and later moved to an undisclosed hospital where he is currently receiving treatment.”
InsightMedia on Monday reported that a group of cultists set ablaze a man at Akede area of Osogbo.
