Over 70 students of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife Osun State were reportedly arrested by officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a midnight raid on hostels outside the campus.
Multiple sources in Ile-Ife confirmed on Wednesday morning that the officials, stormed the Fine Touch and Superb hostels in Oduduwa Estate, Ile-Ife, broke into rooms, and arrested the students.
Reasons for the arrest have not been confirmed as of press time, but the Students’ Union President, Abass Ojo, said the union has details of “72 students picked up from the hostel with phones and cars taken away.”
Subsequently, students of the school on Wednesday stormed EFCC office in Ibadan, Oyo state capital.
The students protested the arrest of some of their school mates by operatives of the anti-graft agency on Tuesday night.
