Yemi Olaniyan, a student studying Accounting in his final year at the Osun State University, who had disappeared from Ojodu Police Station in Lagos State 2 weeks prior, has resurfaced
Mr. Fimihan Adeoye the Commissioner of Police in Osun State presented the boy for journalist’s to interview in Osogbo on Wednesday.
Yemi says he left for Lagos on February 28, to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria in Yaba, Lagos to hand in an application for industrial training.
The student purports to have informed a female acquaintance simply called Oyin that he was going to spend the night at Ojodu Police Station in Lagos later that day, However, he says he later changed his mind, and allegedly spent the night at a shopping complex, from where he left for Ilorin the following morning.
He states he started work doing “email’s” in Ilorin, Kwara State, to raise capital for his school fees which he stated he lost to the MMM Ponzi scheme.
“I went to Lagos and it was getting late. I could not return to Osogbo that day. I decided to go to Ojodu Police Station to pass the night.
“One of my friends, a lady called me and I told her that since I could not make it back to Osogbo that day, I decided to pass the night at Ojodu Police Station.
“After speaking to her, I changed my mind. I just looked for a space at a shopping complex and I passed the night there.
“First thing the following morning, I got a free ride going to Ilorin. When I got to Ilorin, I started doing menial job to raise money.
“I had to work to raise money because I have spent my school fees. I used my school fees for MMM and I lost the money.
“I didn’t deliberately mislead the public. My friend that released the information online later called and said I should return home.
“She said SSS people were on her trail. She said she would commit suicide if I didn’t return. Because of that threat, I left Ilorin and went to one of our neighbours, who is a retired officer of SSS.
“The man, after listening to my story, led me to the SSS office. I am indeed very sorry for whatever embarrassment that misinformation might have caused the Police.”
The CP states that the boy handed himself into the Department of State Services and agents of the DSS brought him to the Police.
Adeoye stated that the information that Olaniyan spent the night at the Police station and that his whereabouts became unknown because the Police had harmed him was incorrect.
“Findings showed that the boy paid fees last when he was in 200 level and he is now in 400 level.
“The information in the public was tilting towards Police harming the boy when he never slept at the station.”
Prof. Labode Popoola the Vice Chancellor of the Osun State University, in 2016, had disclosed that students of the university owed the school over N1bn.
He said a lot students invested in MMM and lost their fees to the Ponzi scheme.