Miss Oyin Adejobi, one of the children of Dr. Deji Adejobi, has narrated how gunmen suspected to be assassins refused to heed the plea of her aged grandma and killed his father, a lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife,
The University Don was mowed down at his residence located at the Dawn area, near Ife tollgate in Ile-Ife, Osun State.
Oyin who was devastated by the loss recounts, “As we finished our evening prayer at 10:05 p.m., dad drove into the compound, and we overheard an argument between the gateman and some strange people. I quickly looked from the window and I saw another black car that entered our compound behind our dad’s car.
“Our gateman was querying the occupants of the other car but they hit him and ordered him to lie down. The men in the black car came out before dad could alight from his car and one of them shot into the air.
“Two of them advanced to dad’s car while others came inside, grandma started begging those that came inside, suddenly, we heard gunshot twice from the outside. The assailants left at 10:20 p.m. and took dad’s car away. I overheard dad begging them that they should not take him away.
“When they left, we thought they took him away and we started praying for the safety of dad without knowing that he had been killed. When the police came, they saw his lifeless body amidst the flower”.
It will be recalled that Professor Albert Ilemobade a former Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Akure was also killed by his domestic staff who absconded with his SUV Jeep.
