The Special Assistant to Governor Seyi Makinde on Students Affairs, Mr. Victor Olojede has been confirmed to have invited the state Joint Security Outfit, Operation Burst to the National Association of Oyo Students (NAOS) National election.
NAOS held their election into various offices on Saturday, 26th December 2020 where Ogbeni Olalekan Excellent, a student of University of Ilorin, Kwara state was assaulted and stripped naked over an unknown allegation.
Olalekan who was said to be 100meters away from Operation Burst while conversing with a colleague, Mariam Olabisi Salahudeen was beaten mercilessly and hit with the butt of a gun before he was taken to their quarters for further assault.
Siyanbola Kunmi who disclosed the identity of the person behind the invite of Operation Burst via his Facebook account ‘Oloye Omo-Iya Kunmi’ said “The SA (Students) to the Governor, Victor Olojede, confirmed that he sent the Operation Burst Squad to ‘monitor’ NAOS elections”.
Ever since this revelation, there have been reactions from the public on why operation burst was sent to a violent free student election by a government official.
According to a sympathizer of Olalekan who pleaded anonymity, he requested that Mr. Victor answer some questions on the sudden appearance of the operation burst at the election ground.
“There are so many questions begging for answers: (1) before the election, was he informed either by writing or verbally that NAOS wanted to carry out an election? (2) Did anyone officially or otherwise request that he sent operation burst to the scene of election? (3) Has any elected officials of NAOS aware of this arrangement?
If answers to these questions are “NO”, then something is wrong somewhere! We need to probe further.”
As at the time of filing this report, there was no official statement or reaction from the government official who gave the order.