Hoodlums encroaching into school land, FUOYE VC cries out

The management of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has raised the alarm over encroachment on the university land by some unscrupulous residents of Oye-Ekiti, the school’s host community.

According to the school’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Abayomi Fasina, the trespassers not only partitioned university land but also disrupted work at the various construction sites within the institution, thus stalling infrastructural development as well as disrupting the peace of the institution.

Abayomi, who stated this at the weekend, disclosed that some unscrupulous men from the community have been attacking workers at the various construction sites of the university thereby disrupting the peace of the university.

Decrying the ugly development, he said: “Just yesterday, some thugs from Oye came to stop the construction work going on at the site where a new hostel is being built. They also placed fetish objects at seven different spots where the contractors are working, just to prevent them from working there. We had to invite security men to restore normalcy at the sites.

“On October 17, 2022, some individuals who claimed to be owners of the land on which the university has been built came with dangerous weapons to attack the surveyor mapping the land for perimeter fencing. 

“The attacks are becoming rather too regular, disrupting the peace of the university as well as Federal Government sponsored construction works on the campus,” he said.

Reacting to the development, the President of Oye Progressive Union (OPU), Elder Ola Oniyelu, said the leadership of the community has done its best to ensure peace between the hoodlums trespassing on FUOYE’s land and the management, but the efforts have to remain futile after several attempts.

He advised the university’s management to arrest any trespassers on its landed property so as to forestall acts that may lead to the breakdown of law and order or disruption of ongoing construction works on the campus.