Heavy Protest Rock University As Final Year Student Dies Few Days to Exam

Cursory: The deceased, Akeredolu Clinton Ayomide, lost his life due to alleged lack of professionalism by the university’s health centre

Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) students staged a protest on Friday, August 25, over the sudden death of Akeredolu Clinton Ayomide, a 500-level student of the institution.

Ayomide slumped and died on the evening of Thursday, August 24.

The protest by the student resulted to the blockage of ever busy Akure/Ilesha road for several hours causing travellers to be stranded.

The undergraduates alleged that the institution’s medical center lacked basic amenities, resulting in the death of Ayomide.

It was understood that that the 2022/2023 first semester examinations of FUTA will begin on Wednesday, 30th August, 2023.

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One of the students who spoke to the journalist explained;

“We rushed him to the health center around 8:30 pm. When we got there, there was power outage, and throughout the oxygen set up, CPR and injections they gave him, the light wasn’t restored.

“We had to use our flashlights. This is hard to believe that there’s no backup power supply in the clinic.“

The Director, Corporate Communication, Adegbenro Adebanjo, called for calm and appealed to the protesting students.

He stated:

“From reports pieced together, Ayomide Akeredolu slumped in his hostel and all attempts and medical intervention at resuscitation even at the Health Centre failed with the doctors recording that he was brought in dead.”

See photos of the protest here