Court remands ex-OAU Students’ Union President
A Magistrate Court in Ile-Ife, Osun State, has, on Thursday, remanded a previous President of the Students' Union of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Oyekan Ibukun, in jail over supposed burglary of assets from the record of the association, which presently has new administration.
The PUNCH accumulated that Oyekan was the leader of the association and a clinical student in 2017, however was denounced for purportedly supporting a clique assault on individual understudies. He had additionally, in 2022, purportedly moved an amount of N720,000 from the association's record to the ledger of one Bello Oyekunle Azeez on April 8, 2022.
In a reaction letter from United Bank for Africa, dated April 12, 2022, named, 'Re-demand for examination on account no: 1012121930 - Obafemi Awolowo University Students' Union', to the ongoing authority of the association, headed by its leader, Olayiwola Festus, the bank expressed that N720,000 was moved by means of web banking stage by a previous association chief with User ID: OAUSU.IBUKUN; Name: Ibukun Oyediran Oyekan, to Oyekunle's Guaranty Trust Bank account.
On his part, the Financial Secretary of the association, Oluwasegun Abiola, in an articulation on Tuesday, said, "On getting the caution of the cash removed, I connected with the President and Secretary-General on the off chance that they got the charge mail yet they got no mail encompassing the exchange. Having raised a caution about the entire issue, it got to some arrangement of individuals whose point is to talk down on the chosen association officials or the workplace of the Financial Secretary.
"On Tuesday, April 12, the bank administrator reached me to illuminate me that the exchange was started by an alleged Ibukun Oyekan (Dr. Ibk), and he further buttressed that I ought to approach get a point by point report of their examination."
Oyekan had, on Wednesday, been captured by the OAU Security Department and moved to Moore police headquarters for additional examinations. He was charged to court on Thursday before Magistrate A.A. Ayeni of the Magistrate Court 3, in Ile-Ife with charges of trick to take, and taking.
