Akintunde Adegunloye a student of the College of Education in Ikere Ekiti, Ekiti State, was allegedly found deceased in his friend’s room on the premises of the State Specialists Hospital, Ondo town, Ondo State.
Mr Femi Joseph, the Ondo State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, relayed that the incident occurred last Thursday at 10pm.
The deceased went to visit two of his friends, leaving school to Ekiti State his friends were pharmacists and members of the National Youth Service Corps, serving in the government-owned hospital in Ondo.
The cause of the death of the student is still unknown but Femi stated that the command had commenced an investigation to unravel the cause of the incident.
“The deceased paid his friends a visit in Ondo, the friends were corps members pharmacists who are serving at the hospital. We learnt that the friends got home on that fateful day and found him (deceased ) dead in the room.
“We have invited the two corps members and as I am speaking with you they are still with us, we are interrogating them on the matter.”
The police spokesman, however, said the father of the deceased had informed the command that the family was not interested in going to court over the matter and the corpse would be released to them.