Education Rights Campaign (ERC), a civil rights organization in Nigeria, has asked the Lagos State University (LASU) to investigate the murder of Nurudeen Alowonle, a student activist popularly known as ‘Omomeewa’.

In a statement released on Friday, ERC said the school’s claim that the 28-year-old activist, alongside Mr Waheed Majekodunmi, a worker in the school, was shot at by robbers was premature.

“We also call for the setting up of a probe panel to unravel the real motive behind the attack, including, if any, the suspected complicity of the Lagos State University’s administration – which had invited him to the campus to yet again answer false charges at the Students Disciplinary Panel about a year after he had graduated from the university,” the statement reads in part.

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Alowonle was killed around LASU U-turn, Iba Road, shortly after he appeared before a disciplinary panel set up by the university on Wednesday.

On Friday, LASU said, in a statement released by Ademola Adekoya, the school’s Coordinator, Centre for Information, Press, and Public Relations, that Alowonle was murdered by “members of the underworld”.

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Adekoya said the deceased departed campus around 8 pm, after being freed by the disciplinary panel he faced at 2 p.m.

“The duo were said to have hobnobbed at the University Senior Staff Club until past 8 pm, after which they left together through the Iba Gate of the university for their destinations,” he said.

“Unable to get vehicles at the school junction as it was late in the day, the duo were said to have trekked several metres away from the gate, ostensibly in search of a vehicle. Unfortunately, they were attacked by men of the underworld, dispossessed of their valuables, and shot at.”