ASUU Seeks Buhari’s Intervention In Finding Missing Professor

bibing

Two years after the sudden disappearance of Professor James Bolarinwa Olomo, a teacher at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, Osun State, his colleagues at the institution have, once again called on the Federal Government to help in finding their missing colleague.

Olomo of the Department of Nuclear and Medical Physics, was declared missing by authorities of the university and family members in 2013.
Worried by the fruitless search, the ASUU, OAU Branch recently organised a congress of all stakeholders in the institution and unanimously called
on President Mohammadu Buhari, and the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase to use their good offices to locate the missing academic.

Addressing the university workers, chairman of the branch, Dr. Caleb Aborisade, described the disappearance of the don as a “mystery,” and appealed to the general public or any one that knows his whereabouts, or has any information that can assist in finding him to contact the university authorities.

Aborisade, who alleged conspiracy in the matter, wondered why security agencies failed to act on tips provided to locate their missing colleague, describing the development as “inhuman, callous and a mis-representation of humanity.”

He recalled that Olomo went to Eket in Akwa-Ibom State as a radiation safety adviser to an undesignated oil and gas Company, on Thursday, October 17, 2013 before his disappearance. The matter, he added, had been reported to the police and the Department of State Services (DSS) in Osun and Akwa Ibom states.

Speaking on efforts made so far to locate the don, he pointed out that major hospitals in Eket had been contacted as well as Catholic churches in Eket and Uyo council areas.

The ASUU chairman also disclosed that a search team had visited Hotel Farlem, Eket, where the missing teacher was believed to have lodged, where a bag containing one native dress, towel, sponge and three tellers left by the don were found in the hotel room.”

Aborisade queried the hotel manager’s position who he said maintained that the professor submitted his room key and left in the morning of Sunday October 20, 2013, without checking out.

Dr. Aborisade who frowned at the claim by the hotel management that the don’s bag was packed into a store, while his room was re-allocated to another guest, wondered why the hotel staff did not report his disappearance to the police.
The ASUU boss, however, called on the federal authorities to act promptly so as to locate the missing professor.

Source: TheGuardian