ASUU Strike: UI Student, Ajayi Samson goes missing

Reports that a student of the University of Ibadan, Ajayi Samson, who came home to work while waiting out the ASUU strike has gone missing.

According to information gathered from a statement released by his brother, Samson began working at the construction site of the Victoria Crest Homes to get money while waiting for the ASUU strike to be called off.

He goes to the site on Monday and sleeps there overnight for the entire week to go back home Saturday evening and resume Monday again.

Samson routinely did this till the 9th of March, 2022 when one of the co-workers called his mother at around 10am to ask about his whereabouts saying they hadn’t seen him since the night before.

He was allegedly seen walking out of the site on the 8th of March by the security guard who thought he just went to another site or another place of work so they didn’t bother to look for him until he didn’t report back to work the following day.

They began proper search for Samson on the 10th of March- as they hoped he would return sometime on the 9th- and found a disfigured corpse next to a water body with his clothes and shoes roughly placed around the corpse.

The family inspected the body and confirmed that it wasn’t Samson’s corpse but that the clothes and shoes found there were indeed his.

Suspecting foul play, they involved the police to help find Samson as they believed him to have been kidnapped. Investigation are alleged to have been going on with no fruitful information.

We are therefore asking you to contact us if you have any information concerning Samson and if you don’t please share this story so it can get to someone who might have information. No detail is too small and you can maintain anonymity.

And to those of you who are away from you family, do yourself well to always text or tell someone where you’re going with a specific address or area; “I dey come” ,”I dey with some of my guys for island”,etc, no be address. The times are evil, Please stay safe.

Contact:

08024920650
08023589422
08035383049

Read his Brother’s statement for details on the matter;

My brother Ajayi Samson Adeola began working on the at a construction site named Victoria Crest homes.

He worked from Monday – Saturday, sleeping at the site during these durations and only comes home Saturday evening then going back to the same site Monday morning. On the 9th of March 2022 around 10am my mum got a call from one of the co-worker saying that they haven’t seen Samson since the night before.

After lot’s of enquiry, we were told that a security official took note of him stepping out of the gate of the construction site, another information given was that he left the site with an unidentified person standing in front of the gate, making a call in the process.

Efforts for a search wasn’t made and the only conclusion drawn was that he probably went to another construction site to work, so the decision made was to wait for him till he gets back.

After waiting until midnight without any sign of return we decided to head to the site the next day.

On the 10th of March 2022, I, my mum, my uncle and his fiancée went down to the site, we met the engineer of the site and other workers who showed us where he (Ajayi Samson Adeola) sleeps, we went through his clothes and belongings trying to get any clue whatsoever as to his whereabouts, while going through his clothes his phone fell out.

From his phone we discovered he had his last calls on the 9th of March, 2022 around 8:50pm.

After several calls to the last calls and other numbers gotten from the notes he penned down, my uncle and I decided to reach out to the police, we heeded for the police station in Ajah leaving my mum and uncle’s fiancee at the site.

After getting to the police station in Ajah, we were directed to Inspector Titi to lay down our complains. While talking to her about the situation, I was called by the engineer on the site, who told my uncle and I that they have suddenly found him and told us to start coming back to the site, hearing this we notified inspector titi and called the engineer once more putting the phone on loudspeaker and he still told us the same thing, we told him to give samson the phone, he told us instead that we should rather come over that he can’t do that.

We immediately called my uncle’s fiancée telling her about what was said, she said she was told nothing and that there are still at the site where they can’t find the engineer anymore.

We immediately went down to the site where we met the engineers and a few other people who told us that they found his body next to an enclosed water body.

On getting to the water side, we found a corpse with several cuts on the neck, face & arms alongside some burns, laying on the floor a few meters from the corpse were some clothes and footwear next to it. With close inquiry, we realized that the corpse wasn’t Samson but the clothes and footwear next to it were his.

Due to this developments, we couldn’t help but suspect foul play, we took pictures of the corpse alongside the clothes and headed back to the site with the Inspector to ask more questions. At the site some of the security men were called and asked information about what they knew, the information they gave this time had little to no correspondence with what we were told before with statement like “he left the site around 7am on Wednesday” another named Moshood who said he often goes to share his(Samson) mosquito net and sleep next to him for the night and also told us that he saw him on Wednesday morning around 11am, leaving the site’s outpost.

Moshood indicated that they waved at each other and in that moment noticed the clothes Samson had on. He confirmed that the clothes we saw at the beach were the one Samson had on that day.

While trying to call along the securities to go along with the inspector to the site, one of them insisted that he was not moving an inch from the site, so only two of the security followed us to the site to make a statement.

Getting to the station at Ajah, the we were escorted to the DPO’s who heard our case and told us afterwards that the case wasn’t within his jurisdiction and referred us to the police station at Ogombo.

At the police station in Ogombo, we presented the case and wrote down our statement and was told afterwards that the case would continue the next day being Friday 11th of March, 2022.

The next day being Friday, 11th of March, 2022, I and my uncle(Mr Taiwo Ajayi) left home for the police station where the DCO and another police officer from Ogombo police station went to the site. On getting to the site, we went back to the where Samson’s property were and discovered that his properties that we kept together the previous day has been ransacked by someone, also the DCO while questioning the securities, adjudged that Moshood wasn’t being coherent with his statements.

We were later joined by my dad, another uncle (Mr Oladapo Babajide) of mine and his friend and headed for the beach place to see the corpse and also confirmed that the corpse wasn’t Samson’s.

We then headed for the police station where we spent hours trying to mobilize the police for arrest based on the suspicion of Samson being abducted but they kept on adopting a guile approach to avoiding and delaying the issue.