The Federal University of Technology,Akure has announced the death of its deputy registrar,Dr Amos Arijesuyo.
In a press statement by it’s deputy director,Corporate communications,Adegbenro Adebanjo,the school maintained that the late registrar was returning with four others from a trip to Ibadan when his team ran into an ambush along the Ilesa-Akure road by unknown gunmen around 5.30pm
Full statement below:
PRESS STATEMENT:
FUTA CONDEMNS KILLING OF ITS DEPUTY REGISTRAR
The Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, with deep regret and pain, announces the demise of one of its Deputy Registrars, Dr Amos Arijesuyo, Head, Guidance & Counseling Unit, Students Affairs Division, who died on Saturday January 16, 2021.
Dr. Arijesuyo died of injuries from the gunshots wound he suffered when his private vehicle was attacked along the Ilesa-Akure Road in the evening of Saturday January 16, 2021.
Dr Arijesuyo was returning to Akure from a trip to Ibadan when his vehicle ran into an ambush laid by unknown gunmen who were operating on the road around 5.30 PM.
The bandits shot sporadically at the vehicle targeting the five occupants. Unfortunately some of the bullets hit Dr Arijesuyo and the driver.
The driver managed to drive the vehicle away from the scene of the attack and concerted efforts were made to seek immediate medical help.
However Dr Arijesuyo succumbed to the fatal injuries from the gunshots he suffered during the hellish encounter while the driver is recuperating at a hospital.
The University condemns in the strongest terms this senseless attack that has led to the untimely death of an erudite University administrator and counsellor per excellence.
Dr Arijesuyo’s death is a big loss to FUTA , the academic community in Nigeria and beyond.
It is a death that should not have happened in the first place. It is the hope of the management, staff and students of FUTA that security agencies will go after the evil men who carried out the dastardly act and make them face the full weight of the law and just recompense for their heinous crime.
Our prayers and thoughts are with the wife, children and family members of our departed colleague at this difficult period of unquantifiable grief.
May the Good Lord grant them the fortitude to bear this irreparable and painful loss and grant the deceased eternal repose.
Adegbenro Adebanjo
Deputy Director,
Corporate Communications
FUTA
January 18,2021
