Gunmen abduct OAU lecturer in Ekiti, kill
driver
MAY 10, 2015 : FEMI MAKINDE, OSOGBO
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Gunmen on Friday evening abducted a lecturer
of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Dr.
Femi Omisore, on his way to attend a funeral at
Oye Ekiti in Ekiti State.
Our correspondent gathered on Sunday that
Omisore, a lecturer at the Department of
Environmental Design Management of OAU, was
abducted in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on
his way to attend the ceremony.
His captors, who were said to be armed with
guns, were said to have trailed him for a while
and his driver tried all he could to avoid being
overtaken by the hoodlums.
On catching up with him, the hoodlums were
said to have killed the driver out of anger and
forced Omisore out of his car before he was
taken away to an unknown place.
The gunmen, it was farther gathered, fired
several shots at the petrol tank of the lecturer’s
car and ensured that the car caught fire before
they left the scene.
The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, OAU chapter, Dr. Caleb Aborisade,
confirmed the incident to our correspondent on
the telephone.
Aborisade said, “According to the information I
gathered from his family, Dr. Femi Omisore was
kidnapped on Friday evening. He was going for a
funeral ceremony in Oye Ekiti.
“I learnt that a member of his department was
burying his father in Oye Ekiti and he was
traveling there when he was kidnapped.
“The kidnappers use his telephone to call his
wife this morning ( Sunday) and they demanded
N70 million ransom.
“We are not politicians, we are running our union
with stipends from our members and where do
they expect us to get such amount.”
He appealed to Omsiore’s abductor to release
the lecturer, saying the family was not rich and
could not afford to pay such a huge amount of
money.
The abduction was also confirmed to our
correspondent on the telephone by the Chairman
of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, Osun
State Polytechnic, Iree chapter, Mr. Dotun
Omisore, who is a nephew of the abducted
lecturer.
The ASUP chairman expressed concern at the
way lecturers and members of their families
were becoming targets of abduction.
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Na wa o

May he return safely.
Lecturers though