300-level Al-Hikmah University Student kidnapped In Ondo farm

Akure, Ondo State– Akindoyo Gideon, a 300-level Computer Engineering student at Al-Hikmah University in Igbaja, Kwara State, has been reported kidnapped.

It was gathered that Gideon was kidnapped while working inside his father’s cassava farm at Lumeko village, Irele Local Government Area of Ondo State. The motorcycle he rode to the farm was found by a search team.

According to a source who doesn’t want his name mentioned, it was disclosed that Gideon might have been abducted due to the lingering communal crisis between the Irele and Igbobini communities.

In a statement by the Senate secretariat of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), appealed to security agencies to help find Gideon.

“Information gathered from the National President of Irele Local Government Students and a community leader Dr. Adekugbe Erik, said Gideon traveled home to gather foodstuffs from his community, only to be abducted while working on his father’s farm.

“The community leader reported that the student’s disappearance coincided with an attack by the Igbobini community, resulting in destroyed homes and properties.

“We categorically demand that the leadership of both Irele and Igbobini communities produce the student, either dead or alive, within the next 72 hours. failure to do so will compel us to relocate the NANS secretariat to the affected communities, where we will remain until the student’s safe return is secured.”

Mrs. Janet Akindoyo, the mother of the victim, told newsmen that the search party saw his motorcycle where he parked it, but we haven’t seen him yet.

“I’m appealing to the security and the people to help find him.”

Confirming the incident to the newsmen in the state, the Ondo Police spokesman, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, said policemen had been deployed to the forest in search of the missing student.