Slain varsity student: NANS seeks justice

The National Association of Nigerian Students has warned the police against sweeping under the carpet the case of a 400 level student of Business Administration at the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Seyi Fasere, who was allegedly killed by a policeman at the Divisional Police Station in Oye Ekiti.
The Chairman of Joint Campus Committee of NANS, Ekiti chapter, Mr. Damilare Bewaji, in a statement made available to journalists in Ado Ekiti on Friday, said those who killed Fasere must be brought to justice.
The student leader described the killing of his colleague, who was billed to start the second semester examination on Monday, as the height of wickedness.
He said the two principal witnesses in the case, a 72-year-old woman, who boarded the same commercial bus with the victim, and a member of the robbery gang had said that Fasere was not among the gang that attacked a branch of the United Bank for Africa at Oye Ekiti on February 28.
A source within the family of the slain student told journalists on Friday that the new Area Commander in Ikole had summoned the principal witness in the case to the station but the woman was said to be indisposed.
She was said to have gone to the police station and the police headquarters in Ado Ekiti to make statements on different occasions.
The robbers had launched simultaneous attacks on the bank and a nearby police station at a time Fasere and the 72-year-old woman, Mrs. Veronica Adewuyi, and their bus driver were passing the area.
The driver was said to have made a detour into a saw mill off the road to allow the shooting to subside.
Having waited for about 15 minutes, the woman said that they all ran into the bush to avoid being hit by stray bullets.
Adewuyi said that she was sure that Fasere was not part of the gang because apart from knowing him to be a diligent young man in Ilupeju Ekiti, where both of them lived, she saw Fasere’s sibling who saw him off to the road where he boarded the bus travelling to Ado Ekiti shortly before they ran into the robbery.
The mother of the deceased, Mrs. Florence Fasere, told journalists that his son had come home to raise money to pay for his tuition but ran into the robbery at Oye Ekiti.