Some students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) have been arrested by officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Osun State.

Tweets from some OAU students on X (formerly Twitter) show that the students were in their respective hostels at Oduduwa Estate, Ile-Ife, when the EFCC stormed the premises to forcefully abduct them in the wee hours of Wednesday.

As posted by many X accounts, the EFCC broke the silence of the predawn hours and many students first thought they were kidnappers until much later, when they found that they were EFCC officials.

A student who asked to be anonymous told FIJ that he learned there was pandemonium at 2:23 am, when a female student in the estate called him and asked him to share the contacts of any security official he knew.

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He said he immediately sent the phone number of the student union president but would later learn that it was the EFCC at work.

According to him, the officials did not only destroy some property and harass students but also arrested one of the caretakers of the hostels, who, alongside the boys, was taken to Ibadan.

A WhatsApp screenshot posted on the microblogging platform by some concerned OAU students read that the students’ phones were forcefully taken from them and they were forced into a bus by EFCC officials.

Numerous posts by OAU students are estimating that the EFCC officials arrested no fewer than 60 students in their operation.

@SonayanAjose, a Twitter user, tweeted that the attack, which led to the dehumanisation of some students, was carried out between 1:30 am and 4 am.

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“The students were made to sleep on the floor, beaten, dehumanised, and some injured when no one resisted,” he tweeted.

In another tweet, he accused the EFCC of illegally attacking the students in their hostels without receiving intel about fraud. He said the officials kept asking the students for their names while abusing them.

Questioning the motive behind the operation, another X user, @the biscolumbo, asked why the EFCC broke into over 78 rooms at midnight.

When contacted for comments on the issue, the EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said he would return our reporter’s call within an hour.