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Angry youths lynch undergraduate for crushing admission seeker to death

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6 years ago

August 29, 2018

Some irate youths in Ede , Osun State , have beaten to death an HND 2 student at the Federal Polytechnic , Ede , Fisayo Olorunfemi , aka Fish , after the student allegedly crushed an 18 -year – old admission seeker , Islamat Bello , to death with his vehicle .
There were various accounts of the number of lives lost in the accident , which occurred in Ita Oloki in Ede .
While residents claimed that four persons were crushed to death and the driver lynched , the police said the undergraduate killed one person and he was murdered by the angry mob .

Apart from the admission seeker , residents said Olorunfemi , who drove a Toyota Camry , with number plate , AAA 463 DV , also killed a telephone repairer, identified as Waliu , and one unidentified person .

Olorunfemi , who was reportedly lynched by the youths of the town , was said to be speeding to avoid being arrested by some security operatives after he had allegedly killed a woman in purdah with the car in the Olowo – Bida area .

The driver , who was said to be a student of Building Technology , was reportedly beaten to death at the scene by the youth , who saw the mangled bodies of those he allegedly hit .

A resident , who identified himself as Sule , told PUNCH Metro that Fish rammed into the admission seeker who was trekking by the roadside after she had sat for the post -UTME exams at the polytechnic .

Waliu and one other person were said to be on a motorcycle when the speeding car also rammed into them and flung them into a ditch.

Although the accident happened around 6 pm on Monday , our correspondent who visited the scene on Tuesday saw bloodstains on the wall of a building near the scene .

An electric pole , which the car rammed into after crushing the admission seeker , had broken into two but the iron rods inside the concrete pole were seen still holding it from falling completely .

Some personal belongings of the deceased , such as slippers , handkerchiefs , as well as broken windscreen, number plate of the motorcycle , and others were still at the scene although the remains of the victims had been removed , while the vehicle had been towed away.

The Public Relations Officer of the polytechnic , Mr Sola Lawal , said he would get back to our correspondent .

The Assistant Commander , Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in charge of Osun West , Mr Hussein Sanusi , told our correspondent that he was informed that three persons died in the incident .

The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Osun State , Mr Peter Oke , who also confirmed the incident , said the driver crushed to death a motorcycle rider and a female passenger .

He said , “ The accident involved a Totota Camry , whose driver was said to have hit a motorcyclist and a girl . The two of them died. The driver was also said to have been killed by people . ”

But the Commissioner of Police in Osun State, Mr Fimihan Adeoye , told our correspondent that the accident claimed one life and the angry mob lynched the driver of the vehicle .
He said , “ One person died in the accident . The accident involved a car and a motorcycle and people took the law into their own hands and killed the poor boy .

“ Efforts are being intensified to arrest those that killed the boy . It was an accident ; it was not intentional, except they can establish that the boy drove intentionally to kill. ”