Female lecturer kidnapped in OOU

Dr Olusola Otulana, an Opthalmologist with the Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, Sagamu campus, was kidnapped last Friday between Imota and Ijebu-Ode while returning from Ikorudu in Lagos State by unknown gunmen.


The kidnappers, it was gathered, trailed her from Ikorodu road and waited until they got to the relatively lonely Imota stretch of the Ikorodu-Ijebu-Ode road, before over taking her car and blocking the access way with their vehicle.

After firing several gunshots into the air to scare her, the female teacher was forcefully seized and taken away by the abductors in another vehicle.
Dr Agboola Deji of the Morbid Anatomy and Pathology Department, said Dr Otulana’s abductors have contacted her family twice since Friday and were initially “demanding N100 million ransom”.

Deji, however, said the abductors who communicated with the victim’s family yesterday had now reduced the ransom to “minimum of N50 million,” adding that the matter had been reported to State Security Service(SSS), Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the varsity authority.

In a telephone interview, the Chairman of the OOU chapter of ASUU, Dr Adesola Nassir, confirmed the incident. He said the lecturers are “fear -stricken” and that work may “grind to a halt” at the College of Health Sciences until the abducted lecturer is rescued alive.