The rector of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Dr. Adeoye Odedeji, has warned the students against night travels following the murder of the institution’s former beauty queen, Happiness Odeh.
Odeh was reportedly abducted, raped and killed by her abductors last week Tuesday after she was reportedly kidnapped along the Iperu-Ogere Road.
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The rector, who paid a condolence visit to the family of the deceased on Monday, lamented the gruesome murder of the 22-year-old Odeh.
Odedeji said the death was due to the insecurity facing the country and advised students to avoid night travels.
He said, “When I received the shocking news because it is very shocking, as a teacher, we have the responsibility covered by our profession. Every teacher is a local parent, which means she is my daughter by the fact that she was a student of MAPOLY.
“It is a reflection of the general insecurity in Nigeria and there is an urgent need for all of us to cooperate with the government particularly the law enforcement agents to ensure that this type of event is arrested because when you begin to lose students in this way, it means we are destroying the future of Nigeria.
“The people we trained today in various schools are regarded as future leaders, therefore, if they begin to pick them and destroy them one after the other, it is a serious issue.”
Speaking on the security measures put in place, Odedeji urged students to avoid taking motorcycles at night.
“We must also exercise caution as regards the period in which they want to travel from one point to another, it should not be late in the evening.
“They must know that it is in the night that evil is perpetrated. Students must be very careful, not only students, everyone of us must begin to caution ourselves when we move from one place to another and at night.”
