Salaudeen Waliu, alias Captain Walz, the final year student
of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of
Ilorin, who battered a female lecturer, Mrs Zakariyau, has explained the
reasons for his action.
He claimed to have gone to the office of the female lecturer
to beg her to help wave the mandatory SIWES course which he missed due to
unforeseen circumstances.
He claimed to have met Mrs Zakariyau numerous times, but all
led to negative responses before the last Thursday assault on the lecturer.
Salaudeen Waliu, while speaking to University Campus Journalists, UCJ-Ilorin, claimed that ” months before the last Thursday incident, he was arrested and locked up for two months, thereby warranting his inability to attend SIWES duties.”
He said he had gone to Allen Avenue in Ikeja, Lagos State,
to meet a friend for the first time. He was waiting for the friend when
according to him, he “felt the urge to urinate.”
Salaudeen said he urinated near a car parked by drainage
when he was challenged by someone who must have washed the car.
He said he was accused of being a thief and was not allowed
to explain himself before a mob descended on him, meted out jungle justice and
handed him over to the police which led to his detention for a period of two
months.
The final year student said after the incident in Lagos, he
approached Mrs Zakariyau to explain to her his ordeal but the lecturer said
there was no help to offer, except he joined the next set which would result in
an extra year.
He said on the fateful Thursday when he entered the lecturer’s
office, she ordered him out of her office.
” I got angry, I don’t know what came over me, I started
arguing and she told me to leave her office, I told her if I don’t leave, what
is she going to do?
“She then threw a mug at me which injured me and I started
beating her,” he added.
Salaudeen said the female lecturer did not fight back, so he
went on to beat her and later dragged her out of her office to continue the
beating.
” I dragged her out and she ran. I chased and kept beating
her before people came. I tried to run but was later caught by the school
security,” he stated in the security cell of the institution where he was
locked up since he was returned from ‘F’ Divisional Police station, Tanke in
Ilorin, the Kwara state capital.
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