Abdulkareem
The Vice Chancellor of the Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State, Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem, was injured on Wednesday after attempting to intervene in a scuffle between three plain-clothed security men and the students of the institution.
The VC told Punch correspondent that the three armed policemen had come into the school to arrest a female student without informing the institution’s authorities.
He added that the students, probably thinking that the female student was to be abducted, resisted the attempt to arrest her.
Abdulkareem stated that he led a team to the scene to intervene before the scuffle escalated. He added that in the process, he was injured.
He said, “What happened this morning is a case of misjudgment by an agency that is supposed to be enforcing laws. The men came to the campus and tried to arrest a female student.
“The students insisted that the lady could not be arrested in campus without the knowledge of the school authorities.
“It is very unfortunate that anybody will come to the university campus and want to make an arrest without effort to inform constituted authorities.
“Anyway if I have not gone there to address the students, only God knows what would have happened because the men were armed. We thank God that I was the only person injured.
“These people were in mufti. That is what is more disturbing. If you come in uniform and you want to effect an arrest, you still need to tell constituted authority. But to make the matter worse, when you come to the campus in plain clothes and wanted to arrest a female student, it is not something that the students will allow.
“We called police and they came. The people that came to make arrest are with the police now. Meanwhile, the student is safely in our hands.”
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