Went Hustling After Losing My School Fees To MMM – Missing UNIOSUN Student Reappears After 2 Weeks

A missing UNIOSUN student who went missing from sight, has given an explanation after he reappeared
again.

Yemi Olaniyan, a final year student o
Accounting at the Osun State
University, whose family said he
disappeared from the Ojodu Police
Station in Lagos State, has come out
of hiding.

According to Punch Metro, the
student was presented to journalists
by the Commissioner of Police in
Osun State, Mr. Fimihan Adeoye, at
the police headquarters in Osogbo on Wednesday.

Olaniyan resurfaced two weeks after
he was declared missing by his
family.

He claimed to have left Osogbo for
Lagos on February 28, ostensibly to
submit an application for Industrial
Training with the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of Nigeria in
Yaba, Lagos.

Olaniyan said informed a female
acquaintance simply called Oyin that he would spend the night at Ojodu Police Station in Lagos later that day, but he confessed to have later changed his mind, claiming he spent the night at a shopping complex, from where he left for Ilorin the following morning.

He stated that he started doing email job in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital to raise his school fees which he said he lost to the MMM Ponzi scheme.

“I didn’t deliberately mislead the
public. My friend that released the
information online later called and
said I should return home.

“She said SSS people were on her
trail. She said she would commit
suicide if I didn’t return. Because of
that threat, I left Ilorin and went to
one of our neighbours, who is a
retired officer of SSS.

“The man, after listening to my story,
led me to the SSS office. I am indeed
very sorry for whatever embarrassment that misinformation
might have caused the Police.”

The CP said the boy turned himself in to the Department of State Services and the operatives of the DSS brought him to the Police.

Adeoye stated that the information
that Olaniyan spent the night at the
Police station and that his
whereabouts became unknown
because the Police had harmed him
was incorrect.

The CP said, “Findings showed that
the boy paid fees last when he was in 200 level and he is now in 400 level.

“The information in the public was
tilting towards Police harming the boy when he never slept at the station.”

It will be recalled that the Vice
Chancellor of the Osun State
University, Prof. Labode Popoola, had in 2016, disclosed that students of the university owed the school over N1bn.

He said most of them invested in
MMM and lost their fees to the Ponzi
scheme.