The candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the September 19
governorship election in Edo State, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has said contrary
to reports, he never poured acid on a fellow student when he was an
undergraduate at the University of Benin.
During the 2016
governorship electioneering, a former governor of the state, Adams
Oshiomhole, had during campaign alleged that Ize-Iyamu, who was the
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in that election, poured acid
on a student.
But in an online television programme monitored
in Benin City on Sunday, Ize-Iyamu said he drew the attention of the
then UNIBEN administration to the plight of the student.
Ize-Iyamu,
who said he ensured the student got first aid treatment, however, said
himself and others linked to the incident were rusticated because the
identity of the culprit was never known.
He said he gained
admission into the University of Benin in 1980 to read Political
Science, but later changed to law and did not graduate until 1986
because he was rusticated for about two years.
He said,
“When I
was in the university, I was a member of the Pyrates Confraternity. At
that time, we didn’t look at it as a cult arrangement but some people
were already coming in with tendencies to create problems. We had this
very confrontational group and one evening, somebody reported to us that
they beat up a final year student who was also close to us and they
mentioned the names of those involved, and we said no, this is bad.
“Don’t
also forget too that I was a students’ union leader, very prominent in
the students’ union congress. So, myself and some persons who heard
about this complaint said let’s go and see the people concerned and talk
to them.
“We went there and met with the people concerned.
They opened the door for us and we were discussing the matter under a
very cordial atmosphere only for some people to come in and before we
knew it, there was smoke in the whole place and somebody shouted acid
and was screaming. It was then I realised that somebody has poured acid
on somebody and I quickly rushed to the security post. I brought them in
and we took the young man to get first aid treatment.
“Of
course, the school set up an inquiry, and the person that was affected
admitted that I was the one who brought security agents and that I was
able to take him in for medical attention. I asked who poured it and he
said he didn’t know.
“He said he knew the face but didn’t know
his name and nobody appeared to know the name and the university said
since you people don’t want to mention the name, we are going to
sanction all of you. Before we knew it, they expelled us.
“The
reason they gave was that they expelled us for belonging to a
proscribed organisation. But the long and short of it is that we were on
it for two years till 1986 when the Senate held a meeting and said
these guys have been punished enough, that if you look at the records,
they were not the one that committed what happened, so, we were called
back, graduated and then went to the Law School.”
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