EFCC invades ogun universities, abducts students

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested 30 students of  Moshood Abiola Polytechnic  and Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta, as well  as  those of Olabisi  Onabanjo University.

 
The anti-corruption body   arrested FUNAAB, MAPOLY students on Wednesday, after   storming    the Ibogun campus of  the OOU  in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State  to arrest  some  students of the school.


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A student of OOU, Samson Adeyemi, who is also the students’ spokesperson, claimed  the EFCC  agents took away 18 students from   the Ibogun campus.

According to him, the agents  arrived  at some students’ hostels around 12am on Tuesday  and   broke in through the windows and the doors before  making arrests.

Punch learnt that operatives raided  student  apartments, claiming that they were Internet fraudsters. Some cars, laptops and phones were taken away.

It was learnt that they  carried out the operations in Safari, Abule-Ojere, Gbokoniyi, Kemta and Alabata, all in Abeokuta, reportedly dominated by MAPOLY and FUNAAB students.

An eyewitness, who recorded a 25-second video of the raid on  a building  in Abule-Ojere,  said the operatives carted  away  a car, laptops, but could not get the suspected  Internet fraudsters living in those apartments.

A student,  who spoke   on  condition of anonymity, said he was accosted on his way home by  EFCC officials, but was  later released after they searched him  and could not find  any incriminating material on him.

Punch correspondent  also obtained a 50-second  video from one of the victims whose apartment was allegedly  raided by the  EFCC.

In the video, the victim  believed  to be a student of MAPOLY lamented that he was not a fraudster, but his apartment  was raided.

The victim claimed that the  operatives  broke into his room through the windows  and ransacked  his apartment.

Punch also obtained a video where a vehicle carrying the EFCC operatives was  moving around Abeokuta.

Meanwhile, the  Public Relations Officer of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic Student  Union, Johnson Idowu, said the school had   not received  any   report  of arrest of  MAPOLY students by  the  EFCC.

Uwujaren told our correspondent that they arrested about 30 people  over alleged  Advance Free Fraud.