The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the Federal University of Technology, Minna (FUT MINNA), Dr Abdulfatai Jimoh was on Friday abducted by gunmen in Ibadan while he was going to an international conference being held in honour of Dr Oladipo Fashina, a lecturer in the department of Philosophy, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU).
He was kidnapped alongside the union’s Financial Secretary, Mr Ganiyu Olanrewaju, at Macmillian bus-stop in Ibadan at about 6:45pm. The duo was dumped in a forest near Ogun State, where the police later found them.
The gunmen made away with Jimoh’s official car, a Sienna 2005 model, which contained several documents including his laptop. The items were yet to be recovered at press time.
Jimoh explained that he left Minna on Friday morning for the conference en route Ibadan as it was a shorter way to get to Ile-Ife.
“I don’t believe I won’t be dead by now because we were attacked by four hefty armed men. If it is not the assigned time for a man to die, he would not die,” a bemused Jimoh submitted.
The Nation
He was kidnapped alongside the union’s Financial Secretary, Mr Ganiyu Olanrewaju, at Macmillian bus-stop in Ibadan at about 6:45pm. The duo was dumped in a forest near Ogun State, where the police later found them.
The gunmen made away with Jimoh’s official car, a Sienna 2005 model, which contained several documents including his laptop. The items were yet to be recovered at press time.
Jimoh explained that he left Minna on Friday morning for the conference en route Ibadan as it was a shorter way to get to Ile-Ife.
“I don’t believe I won’t be dead by now because we were attacked by four hefty armed men. If it is not the assigned time for a man to die, he would not die,” a bemused Jimoh submitted.
The Nation
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