A former Chief Security Officer of the Polytechnic, Ibadan, Ahmed Olalekan, has been shot dead by suspected cultists who traced him to his residence in Apete, Ibadan.
Olalekan, a graduate of the institution, was shot on the neck on Monday by the suspected members of the dreaded Aiye Confraternity of Nigeria.
An eyewitness said in Ibadan on Tuesday that the suspected assailants inflicted some machete cuts on the deceased before they fled.
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The death of the chief security officer, who had been behind the clampdown on cultism in the institution, enraged his colleagues who blocked vehicular traffic along the Sango-Eleyele road, Ibadan.
It was also gathered that some members of the Apete Youths Forum protested against the killing of Olalekan, who is their member, in the premises of the institution on Tuesday.
A visit to the institution showed that only a few students were on campus while virtually all the lecture halls were empty.
The school security operatives were on patrol with some posted at strategic locations to prevent the breakdown of law and order.
Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer in Oyo State, ASP Adekunel Ajisebutu, said some policemen had been deployed to the campus to maintain law and order.
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Ajisebutu said some arrests were made and exhibits such as axes and cutlasses recovered.
The PPRO said the state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Odude, had directed that discrete investigation into the incident be carried out and the suspects arrested be charged to court.
On his part, the Public Relations Officer of the Apete Youths Forum, Adeyemi Ridwan, who was one of the last persons that saw the victim before his death, said the cultists had been threatening to strike for more than two weeks, blaming the school authority for not acting on the information.
Ridwan said,
“The school is aware of this. I left the school with Maku on Monday and when we got to Apete, I told him that we should go to a place but he said he wanted to go and rest at home so he alighted from the commercial motorcycle we took from school.
“Five minutes later, a lady called me and said that Maku had been killed by cultists who shot him in the neck in his apartment.”
Another member of the forum, Bakare Ademuyiwa, said that on August 6, 2018, he received a message from a member of the Aye Confraternity. He said he was told Maku had been disturbing them from carrying out their activities in the school.
“I said that the forum is an anti-cultism group that had existed for many years in the school. I also pleaded with them not to attack Maku.
“I was shocked on Monday night when I received a call while watching the Premier League match between Manchester United and Tottenham that Maku had been killed by two Aye Confraternity members who attacked him in his apartment at Apete.
“Maku was shot in the neck and the killers stabbed his neck with an axe several times. He graduated from Urban and Regional Planning Department of the school. The Students Forum has within the group, students and former students of the school.”
