Ogun State Government has assured citizens of the state, particularly students of Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun and residents of Abapawa community in Odogbolu Local Government Area of the state that it would do everything possible to bring to book those who robbed and raped four female students of the university on Tuesday.
Four students of the university living in a private hostel at Abapawa community were said to have been raped by some robbers who stormed the community in the early hours of Tuesday.
The Deputy Governor, Noimot Salako-Oyedele, gave the assurance that the state government will do all that are within its capability to arrest the criminals.
Salako-Oyedele, according to a statement made available to our correspondent on Wednesday, gave this assurance on Tuesday after paying a visit to the rape victims at the Ogun State Hospital, Ijebu Ode, before they were moved to the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, for proper health care and rehabilitation.
She said the government was notified of the incident by the Odogbolu Local Government Chairman, Ladejobi Adebayo.
She added that Governor Dapo Abiodun immediately directed security operatives to move to the community and ensure that those responsible were brought to book.
Salako-Oyedele indicated that the state Commissioner of Police, Alamutu Abiodun, had been to the scene of the incident and was working to ensure that the culprits were apprehended to face the full wrath of the law.
Speaking later at a meeting with the varsity management team, representatives of the student body, the Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof Abayomi Arigbabu; Commissioner of Police, Mr Abiodun Alamutu; Salako-Oyedele stressed the need to forestall a recurrence.
“I am on a fact-finding mission to establish what happened and what could be done to support the victims immediately and subsequently, apprehend the criminals and of course, prevent such a thing happening again,” she said.
She charged the school management to work with the concerned community, the police and the students to develop stakeholder engagements to put in place mechanisms that will guarantee that the lives and properties of the students who live off campus are secured.
The deputy governor said the news of the incident was a very disheartening one, promising the aggrieved students union representatives that the government would do everything humanly possible to apprehend the criminals. (PUNCH)
