How 2 UNIOSUN Final Year Students Got Missing

How 2 UNIOSUN Final Year Students Got Missing

By Olumayowa Ojo

Two Computer Science final year students of Osun State University, Osogbo campus, Robert Akinduro and Samuel Eke have been declared missing for the past 17 days from the school.

Akinduro and Eke were said to have left the campus around 10:30 pm to see a computer scientist, popularly called praise who was helping them on their project.

CityMirrorNews learnt that the students were nowhere to be found since they left the campus, just as Praise stated that they never got to him on that night.

It was gathered the police officers at Oke-Baale police division, where the case was reported had arrested and interrogated praise before the matter was later transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Depart (SCID).

Praise has reportedly told to the police that he did not know the where about of the missing students.

Speaking with newsmen on Tuesday, Eke’s mother said she had contacted the Dean of the Student Affairs on phone, adding that the DSA refused to comment on the matter.

Mrs Eke said she believed that only God could locate her son, who she said was her only child. She said she believed that Samuel and Robert were still alive.

She said: “ I went to the police headquarters and the man, who they went to see, was still in detention. I saw him there. He said he did not see them.

“I am not sleeping, I have not been sitting down and folding my hands; my brother and I have been praying. He is my only son and my only child. I don’t have any child apart from him, I am deeply troubled, but I believe God will bring him back home.

“They told us in some places we went to that Samuel and Robert are alive, but they are in a tight place and only God can release them. The university has also been helpful. The police are also trying.”

Henry Akinduro, the brother of Robert Akinduro, said the family had not given up hope, saying God would find Robert for the family, adding that the family believed that God would bring back his brother and his friend alive.

He disclosed that he chatted with his missing brother until around 10.54pm when he went to meet Parise.

He said his brother and Parise started chatting around 8.pm on the day they got missing.

The Police Public Relations Officer in Osun State, Mrs. Folasade Odoro, said the suspect was still with the police.

Odoro said, “The police have not released the suspect. How can we release the suspect when we have not seen the victims or got to the root of the matter?

“We are still carrying on with the investigation into the matter and we will not relent until we rescue the young men.”

She urged anybody with useful information on the whereabouts of the students to contact the police.

As at the time of filing this report, the two students were still nowhere to be found, and there is no report of anybody demanding for ransom on the missing students.