Police Investigate Death Of OSPOLY Student As Boyfriend Remains In Detention

THE State of Osun Police command has begun investigations on the death of a National Diploma I student of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Omowumi Afolabi.

Afolabi, a student of Mass Communication Department, died on October 30, 2021 after visiting her boyfriend, Adebayo Adeyemi, popularly known as Randy. 

Residents especially students of the tertiary institution were thrown into shock as news filtered last Sunday over Afolabi’s death.

It was  gathered that Afolabi had stayed with Adeyemi in his residence at Gaa area, Iree for about a week till the day she died. 

Student sources in Iree told the medium that Adeyemi rushed his girlfriend to hospital when she suddenly developed sickness. 

She was said to have been rejected in the first hospital she was taken to before she was certified ‘brought-in-dead’ at the second hospital. 

The student’s death has been generating controversies on the campus and Iree community, as some people alleged Adeyemi of using late Afolabi for ritual. 

One of Afolabi’s friends spoke with Newsmen on condition of anonymity on Wednesday. 

She said: “Wunmi went to her boyfriend’s place since last Saturday. She came home and I told her I dreamt that something was about to happen. I told my dad the dream and he told us to be careful of guys. My mum also said that.

“But by the time they told me that she is not at home, I tried her number but it was not going through. My message to her WhatsApp was not also dropping. She had been at her boyfriend’s place since last Saturday. She came back home on Sunday, carried her bag and went back to him again.

“All of a sudden, they just called me that Wunmi is in the hospital that I should be coming. By the time I got there, she has been foaming. Her body was also emitting bloods.”

However, the Police Public Relations Officer, Osun Command, Mrs Yemisi Opalola, said autopsy would reveal the real cause of her death.

Opalola, in an interview with OSUN DEFENDER yesterday, said the police have arrested Afolabi’s lover, Adeyemi who was cooling his feet at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Osogbo.

Opalola hinted that the Police was scaling up investigations on the matter.