Ede Poly alumni demands justice for late student
The Osun Branch of the Federal Polytechnic Ede Alumni Association has asked the Osun State Police Command to bring the prime suspect in the killing of Hassan Adedeji, a potential National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member to justice.
The association also condemned the killing of the potential Corps member who was a Higher National Diploma graduate of the Department of Banking and Finance.
He was gunned down, together with a business motorcyclist by a presumed cultist in the early hours of Thursday, February 10, 2022, at the Agbalemobode location of Ede.
The killings triggered days of discontent as trainees went on rampage protesting the death, burning tires and blocking major streets in the ancient town.
Making the call Monday, the chairman of the association, Olorunfemi Olatunji Awoko, who described the event as nauseating and babaric, charged the Osun State Commissioner of Police, Wale Olokode to thoroughly examine the situations that led to the death and killing of the student, with a view to preventing further incident of such events.
Lamenting that the consequences of the killings was the discontent which the surrounding communities and Ede was thrown into, Awoko, who was a previous trainee union president of the organization, also contacted the police and other security agencies to step in and strengthen the security device in the State so regarding nip criminality in the bud.
The student activist, while applauding the cops for doing something about it and jailing two of the suspected cultists, demanded that the police should intensify their efforts and get Rasheed Okoolu, the leader and prime suspect, who is still at big, apprehended.
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