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APC Governorship Aspirant In Edo State denies Crime Allegation During Studentship
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant, Edo state, Dr. Osagie Ize-Iyamu, denies allegedly bathing a student with acid as an undergraduate at the University of Benin.
In the previous election conducted in Edo state in 2016, former Governor Adams Oshiomole, accused the then PDP candidate, Ize-Iyamu, of pouring acid on his fellow student.
Reacting to the report, Ize-Iyamu said he did not pour acid on anyone narrating the incident that led to his rustication in an online programme, Ize-Iyamu clarified that he brought the school’s attention to the plight of the student after ensuring he had gotten first aid.
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The inability of the administration to find the culprits led the school to treat those linked to the incident as a scapegoat, and they were expelled.
He said he was admitted into the university of Benin in 1980 but would only graduate in 1986 because he was rusticated for two years.
He said, “When I was in the university, I was a member of the Pyrates Confraternity. At that time, we didn’t look at it as a cult arrangement but some people were already coming in with tendencies to create problems. We had this very confrontational group and one evening, somebody reported to us that they beat up a final year student who was also close to us and they mentioned the names of those involved, and we said no, this is bad.
“Don’t also forget too that I was a students’ union leader, very prominent in the students’ union congress. So, myself and some persons who heard about this complaint said let’s go and see the people concerned and talk to them.
“We went there and met with the people concerned. They opened the door for us and we were discussing the matter under a very cordial atmosphere only for some people to come in and before we knew it, there was smoke in the whole place and somebody shouted acid and was screaming. It was then I realised that somebody has poured acid on somebody and I quickly rushed to the security post. I brought them in and we took the young man to get first aid treatment.
“Of course, the school set up an inquiry, and the person that was affected admitted that I was the one who brought security agents and that I was able to take him in for medical attention. I asked who poured it and he said he didn’t know.
“He said he knew the face but didn’t know his name and nobody appeared to know the name and the university said since you people don’t want to mention the name, we are going to sanction all of you. Before we knew it, they expelled us.
“The reason they gave was that they expelled us for belonging to a proscribed organisation. But the long and short of it is that we were on it for two years till 1986 when the Senate held a meeting and said these guys have been punished enough, that if you look at the records, they were not the one that committed what happened, so, we were called back, graduated and then went to the Law School.”
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