UPDATE: Missing UNIOSUN Student’s Decomposing Corpse Found in a Bush | Students Protest Violently Over Incessant Cases of Missing Students

The decomposing corpse of a final year Microbiology student of Osun State University (UNIOSUN) was found in a bush near the home of an Islamic cleric (alfa) in Osogbo, in the early hours of Tuesday.

The Osun State police command on Tuesday paraded three persons, suspected to be responsible for the death of the 400-level student, Timilehin Shonibare.

We had earlier reported that Shonibare was declared missing by his colleagues on the June 26, 2017 (read here).

According to Vanguard, the suspects, Sakariyahu Abdulrafiu (19), and two of his friends, Ayuba Ibrahim, (24), and Yusuff Kareem (18), were said to have murdered the deceased for ritual purposes.

Some students of the university, who live around Jafaria Street, Osogbo told journalists that the Alfa took the security agents to the bush, where the swollen body of Shonibare was discovered.They confessed to have murdered the innocent student with a pestle on the head, butchered him and roasted his head.

Confirming the incident, the Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mr Olufimihan Adeoye, said the trio were herbalists, and had conspired with one other person presently at large to commit the crime on June 26, at about 7:30pm, around Oke-baale, Osogbo, the Osun State capital.

According to Adeoye, the body of the victim was dismembered after killing him, as his head and the two wrists were cut off and his remains was dumped in the bush. He added that the head and wrists of the slain student have already been roasted in a local pot, and subsequently recovered from the culprits, together with his remains, which has been deposited at the mortuary for autopsy.

He said the case of a missing person was reported to the police by friends of the deceased, on June 27 at 7:45pm and that the information provided by the victim’s friends led to the arrest of the suspects.

He further explained that investigations were ongoing to get more facts and promised that the culprits would be accordingly prosecuted in line with the dictates of the law.

A recent report by Punch, state that students of the university have taken over Olaiya and some streets in Osogbo burning brutes and vandalizing properties as they protest the incessant disappearance of their colleagues.

The students, dressed in black shirts and trousers, chanted war songs and attacked motorists and journalists covering the protest.

They invaded the NUJ Correspondent Chapel’s office at Fagbewesa and slapped a female journalist, Seun Adesokan and rough handled others for daring to take their photographs.

More details later…