Urges students to guide against evil plans targeted at institution
The Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Henry Ndukuba, has assured all stakeholders of Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo Town, of better security to prevent a recurrence of untoward happenings in the faith-based institution.
It would be recalled that a 200-level student at the university, Alex Timileyi Akor, was beaten to death by his fellow students over an allegation of phone theft.
According to a statement by the institution’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Femi Atoyebi, Ndukuba gave the assurance during his solidarity visit to the university in the wake of the incident and was accompanied by the Visitor to the university, Most Rev. Joseph Akinfenwa; Secretary to the House of Bishops in Nigeria, Rt. Revd. (Dr) Williams Aladekugbe and Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the university’s governing council, Dr Olutoyin Okeowo, among others.
Ndukuba said: “The devil planned to completely destroy the university we have been labouring to build in the last 17 years with a good reputation were it not for God who check-mated the level of the disaster.”
The cleric urged students and their parents to believe that God has check-mated the plans of the devil against the institution. He, however, urged the students and their parents to keep believing in the capacity of the university to offer sound education and moral training, saying that the university would come out stronger from every storm.
Ndukuba, while lauding the university’s management for its creativity and courage in handling the situation, disclosed that the recent unpleasant developments in the school rattled all the stakeholders of ACU because “this is an academic environment where such things were not expected to happen.”
The Primate, who was led to one of the student hostels in the university where he advised students to be their brother’s keepers, urged them to report any unusual development to the school management for solutions.
Earlier in his welcome address, Okeowo briefed the Primate how the two incidents of rape and beating to death of a student on an allegation of phone theft had rattled the council and the management team, leading to police involvement.
