Students of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife have called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to issue an apology following the arrest of 69 of their fellow students during a dawn raid near campus hostels.
The Students’ Union of the university has asserted that the detained individuals were indeed students of the institution.
As previously reported by Parallel Facts, students of the university were apprehended by the officers of the EFCC on Monday morning.
Following a protest staged by the students, who converged at the anti-graft agency’s Iyaganku office in Ibadan on Wednesday, and with the intervention of the university’s management, 58 of the detained students were released.
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The university’s spokesperson, Abiodun Olanrewaju, has also confirmed the release of 58 students, while the fate of the remaining 11 individuals remains in question.
In a joint statement issued on Thursday, signed by the union’s president, Abbas Ojo; Secretary General, Akinboni Opeyemi; and PRO, Omisore Elijah, the student unionists have demanded that the EFCC clear the names of their fellow members.
The union is actively working to secure the release of the remaining 11 students.
The statement partly read, “We also demand that the EFCC tender a public release clearing the names of the unlawfully incarcerated (students) of the unfounded allegations published on their media handles and broadcast to the whole country in which the earlier published posts had already been pulled down across all their social media platforms.”
The spokesperson for the union, Omisore, further said, “We are calling for an apology from the EFCC and a vindication of the students’ reputations.”