OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE COMMITTS SUICIDE

The class representative of the deceased, Ayo Oyewole, while speaking on the ugly development, noted that the death of Olowoporoku came as a rude shock,adding that the department was yet to get full details of the incident, as at the time of filing this report.

Penpushing further reports, that the school security officer, Babatunde Oyatokun, claimed ignorance of the issue, stating that, “I also read it online. They said he killed himself because he failed some courses but I don’t have any information on that,”.

However, the deceased intimate friend who does not want his name in print was of the view that, Olowooporoku might have killed himself as Mayowa, following the failure in some courses as earlier rumoured .

“He is not the only one that had issues (with some courses). I also had but I have passed them. He wrote the course as an extra student. That (was) first semester last session. The result came out late because of ASUU strike but was released in the second semester’.

‘The one he told me about is CVE- technical report writing. So, when it was eventually released, he failed that one again, so, he said they were going to the department to beg the lecturers. Out of six of them who took the course as extra year students, only one passed. So I feel that contributed to his depression,” Mayowa said.

 “He never showed it. But I could remember in Part Four, he told me that there’s pressure from home and that they (the parents) don’t know what he is facing in school. They want him to graduate with a first class or Second class upper.”

Penpushing also reports that, one of the students who visited the deceased residence in Lagos on Monday, Oludolapo Adepoju, confirmed the death and spoke of the sad and gloomy state the team met the family.

The intimate friend of the late undergraduate, explained that the family does not want any details published about the incident, adding, that, “What has happened has happened and the family is not happy. They don’t want any other information published. After all, his picture has been circulated on the internet,”