Breaking News: OAU SUG Calls On Police To Produce Driver Of Bus That Crushed Colleague

The Students Union of Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ile Ife, has accused the Osun State
Police Command of hiding the driver of a private
school bus which crushed a 200 level law
student of the university to death.
Mary Ibitolu was knocked down from a
motorcycle and crushed to death on May 6 by
the driver of a school bus whose vehicle was
faulty.
The Vice President-elect of the OAU Students
Union, Miss Opeyemi Oladunjoye, spoke with
journalists during a candle light procession held
in honour of the deceased in Osogbo on
Tuesday night.
Old students of Our Lady and Saint Francis
Catholic College, Osogbo, which the deceased
attended, organised the procession in
collaboration with OAU students.
She said, “We are not satisfied with the
response of the Police Public Relations Officer
 concerning the whereabouts of the driver.
“The police seem to be hiding something from
us as regards the school bus driver that killed
our Motunrayo. The PPRO refused to tell us
plainly whether the driver was arrested, where
he is being kept and when prosecution would
commence.”
She said the SUG would do everything to
ensure justice in the case.
The OAU President-elect of the SUG, Mr. Kayode
Omotayo, in a tribute circulated at the event,
poured encomium on the deceased just like
many others.
Omotayo blamed the government and the
hospital, which he alleged did not attend to the
deceased on time, for her death.
He said, “The Great Ife union believes that the
inept of the government both at the state and
federal level have continued to hunt the innocent
Nigerian students.
“We discovered that the late Miss. Mary
Motunrayo Ibitolu, who was an emblem of
beauty and brilliance, after her accident, was
not quickly attended to by medical personnel;
the vehicle that hit her was not, by any standard
of traffic regulations, supposed to be on the
road.
“However, we have come to the reality that she
is no more with us. The Great Ife community
continues to mourn Miss Mary Motunrayo
Ibitolu who will forever remain in our heart.”
Efforts to speak to the PPRO, Mrs. Folasade
Odoro, were unsuccessful as calls to her
telephone set, did not connect, but the text
message sent to her, which indicated it was
delivered, was not responded to.
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