Guard: Why I killed undergraduate on campus

A security guard, Ogunseunwo   Ademola, 30, attached to Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu, Lagos State (LASPOTECH), has been arrested for shooting an expelled student of the institution to death.

Fielding questions from our correspondent on why he shot and killed Amowo Hammed, Ademola said: “I was just doing my job as a security officer. I have been working with the school for over two years now. The worst part of the matter is that some of these cultists are not students of our school. They come from other schools to terrorise our students and lecturers.”

Ademola was arrested along with Rilwanu Adewale and Aiyewumi Daniel. Ademola explained that it was because of incessant and escalating cult activities, that the school management equipped them with double barrel guns. 

Recollecting the incident that led to the death of Hammed, Ademola said: “On February 21, I was on duty when I suddenly noticed students and lecturers running up and down in the school compound. I saw some of boys that belonged to cult groups in the area. They were inside the campus and were terrorizing everyone. I and other security officers, were able to catch some of the boys. As we were questioning them, to know their mission in the school and also to retrieve some of the property they had collected from some students, Amowo Hammed, escaped. We ordered him to stop, but he refused; I then shot his leg.”

The LASPOTECH spokesman, Mr Olanrewaju Kuye, explained that on the fateful day in question, some students alerted the institution’s security personnel that cult members had invaded the school.

Kuye said: “The security officers had to chase the cult members out of the campus; but when they got there, they discovered another set of cult groups approaching from the adjourning village to attack our students. Upon sighting our security men, the cultists began to shoot at will. Our security men had no choice but to retaliate. Bullet got one of the cultists later identified as Amowo Hammed. He was a former student of our school. He was expelled over examination malpractice.”

The school spokesman added that but for the prompt response of the institution’s security personnel, many students could have lost their lives in the attack.

Kuye said that although the school management was making effort to get Ademola released from police custody, he and the management also realized that the police must be allowed to do their job.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi said that the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), in charge of  Shagamu Road Divisional Headquarters, received a distressed call that Ademola, attached to Lagos State Polytechnic Security Department shot and killed Hammed, a suspected cultist which made other members to go on the rampage.

Imohimi said:  “Rilwanu Adewale and Aiyewumi Daniel were arrested with the combined efforts of SARS Ikorodu and local vigilante group based in Ikorodu. One locally made double barrel gun was recovered from the cultists. They confessed that the gun belonged to their group leader, aka Clear, now at large. The case is under investigation. The suspects will soon be charged to court.”