Taiwo Gbolahan, a 100-level student of the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), died on Friday while trying to submit his classmates’ assignment on the Oye campus of the institution.

The deceased was the class governor of the Department of Quantity Surveying, Faculty of Environmental Design and Management, Ikole-Ekiti campus of the university.

A student who does not wish to be named told FIJ that Gbolahan was involved in an accident on the Ikole-Oye road.

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According to the source, Gbolahan’s department was meant to submit their MTH 101 assignment by 8 am on Friday or they would have carryovers. As the class governor, he had to collate his classmates’ assignment papers for submission.

“In the early hours of December 16, he boarded a motorcycle to Oye park In Ikole-Ekiti. He fell down while the bike rider was trying to overtake a vehicle,” the source said.

“After the accident, he was taken to the school clinic, but they did not have the facilities to treat him. Then he was taken to the hospital in Ido-Ekiti but couldn’t make it.”

The institution’s Student Union Government (SUG) also confirmed the incident on their Twitter page.

“With sadness, we mourn the sudden demise of Gbolahan, a 100lv stream A Governor of Faculty of Environmental Design at the IKole Campus, who lost his life in an accident in the early hours of today,” it wrote.

1/4. REGRETFUL NOTIFICATION OF A MEMBER LOSS 💔

With sadness, we mourn the sudden demise of Gbolahan, a 100lv stream A Governor of Faculty of Environmental Design at the IKole Campus who lost his life in an accident in the early hours of today.

— FUOYESUG (@FUOYE_SUG) December 16, 2022

“As a result of this, the university management and the union have scheduled to hold an emergency meeting with the leadership of 100lv students and other stakeholders of the union in the Ikole campus tomorrow morning without any further delay.

“To curb the reoccurrence of the such sad development, we are engaging the concerned authorities for immediate action and fixing of administrative loopholes that make our students usually risk their lives on IKOLE-Oye road.”

WE ARE TREATED UNFAIRLY, LIKE OUTCASTS — IKOLE CAMPUS STUDENTS

Meanwhile, many students of the institution have expressed displeasure with the arrangement which requires Ikole students to frequent Oye campus for activities like stamping of forms, submission of assignments and freshers’ orientation, among others.

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They also called on the school’s management to address the issue to forestall future unpleasant occurrences.

Temitope, a FUOYE student, wrote, “Maybe it’s time to finally ask these questions of relevance, and not when another humongous conflagration engulfs this magnificent edifice cum students populace. What’s the essence of having two campuses running simultaneously when those in Ikole campus still have to come to Oye campus for medicals, orientation, convocation, matriculation, submission of assignments, appointment with lecturers? Why? How does this control an iota of commonsensical representation? This is inhumane and we can only plead with the management to help us.”

Theophilus, another student of the school, said, “We pay the same fees, but they make us Ikole students feel like outcasts, like we [are] not part of their students. It should end.”

Mayowa, also a FUOYE student, said, “They (lecturers and management) stress Ikole students over almost everything. I could hear a lecturer telling students who had come from Ikole to have their physics practical yesterday, 15-12-2022, in Oye to go back to Ikole campus without them doing the practical.”

“May his perfect soul rest in peace. This is so disheartening. Staying In Ikole but all activities in Oye, Oye that is going to 1 hour distance from Ikole; seriously, it is not easy. Please, they should consider us,” Jamal Folaranmi also wrote.

Another aggrieved student, identified as Paul, said despite paying the same school fees with Oye campus students, the school neglected those at Ikole campus and related with them as though they were not FUOYE students.