All is now set for the burial of Professor Gideon Okedayo of the department of mathematics, Ondo University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa who was killed by yet to be identified gunmen
The slain Professor will be buried in Okitipupa today (Saturday)
A congress was held in his honour on Friday by the university community.
This is coming just a s the institution’s branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) said that the killing of the professor is likely a case of assassination and not kidnap as speculated.
The Chairman of ASUU, OSUSTECH branch, Dr Dipo Komolafe,expressed the need for security agencies to carry out thorough investigation into the death of the professor.
He said the matter was more than a case of kidnapping.
The 51-year-old Professor and his driver were reportedly kidnapped in Edo State on their way to his home town, Igira in Kogi State by gunmen.
But his driver, who later escaped from the kidnappers’ den reported the case to the police.
Some hours later, the Edo State Police Command said it recovered the vehicle of the deceased at the scene of the abduction but could not locate the whereabouts of the vehicle’s owner.
Few days later, the lifeless body of the late professor was discovered few meters away from the scene of the abduction.