Lagos State University (LASU) bestowed their best Graduating Student award on Arowosegbe Michael Aderibigbe who happens to be the son of a security man.
Aderibigbe graduated as the best student of the 2014/2015 academic session with a CGPA of 4.68 from the department of Biochemistry.
The Nation reports that Aderibigbe’s father was a member of the LASU security staff popularly known as ‘Campus Marshall’ but he lost his job after and accident and was even almost bedridden.
Aderibigbe in a powerful valedictory speech recounted how he hid his father’s identity for fear of being attacked.
He said “My dad had been here for about five years before I secured admission, but I could not tell my friends because I was afraid of being attacked. So I kept it a secret. I witnessed a protest in 100 Level, where my father was stoned. I could not cry.”
He revealed that LASU was not even his first choice as he failed to get into Obafemi Awolowo University to study medicine and surgery.