FUTA students
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Students of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) have strongly criticized the actions of officials from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for conducting a raid on their off-campus hostels during the early hours of Wednesday.
Earlier reports indicated that around 2 am, anti-graft officials descended on the Road Block axis in Orita Obele, the capital of Ondo State, Akure, targeting the residences of students in the vicinity.
The students stated that when the EFCC agents allegedly broke into their dormitories, they initially believed they were kidnappers.
The EFCC conducted raids at a number of lodges, including Peace Apartment, Adonai Lodge, and Celebrity Lodge.
However, the FUTA Student Union denounced the raid and brought attention to the fact that it happened at midnight.
FUTA student union president, Oluwasoromidayo Olayemi, disclosed that officials of the anti-graft agency arrested some students during the raid which he termed unlawful.
The union president said, “We regret to inform you of an ugly incident that happened within our school off-campus community. At 3 am on February 14, 2024, some agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) broke into more than three school lodges in the South Gate community and made unlawful arrests of our students, destroyed properties, molested a female student, and inhumanely inflicted injuries on some other students.”
The timing of the raid, he pointed out, ran counter to an earlier order from the EFCC chairman dated November 1, 2023, which stated that “sting operations at night be stopped in all the Commands of the EFCC.”
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