Salaudeen Waliu, alias Captain Walz, a final-year student at the University of Ilorin’s Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, who assaulted a female lecturer, Mrs Zakariyau, has explained his actions.
He stated he went to the female lecturer’s office to urge her to waive the SIWES course that he had missed due to unforeseen circumstances.
He claimed to have met Mrs Zakariyau several times, all of which resulted in negative replies prior to the lecturer’s assault last Thursday.
“Months before the past Thursday event, he was arrested and locked up for two months, hence warranting his inability to attend SIWES tasks,” Salaudeen Waliu stated to University Campus Journalists, UCJ-Ilorin.
He claimed he went to Allen Avenue in Ikeja, Lagos State, for the first time to meet a buddy. He was waiting for a friend when he “felt the urge to urinate,” according to him.
When Salaudeen urinated near a car parked along drainage, he was confronted by someone who must have washed the car.
He claimed he was accused of theft and was not given the opportunity to defend himself before a mob descended on him, meted out jungle justice, and handed him over to the police, resulting in his two-month incarceration.
After the incident in Lagos, the final year student approached Mrs Zakariyau to explain his ordeal, but the lecturer told him there was nothing he could do except join the following set, which would give him an extra year.
He claimed that when he entered the lecturer’s office on that fateful Thursday, she ordered him out.
”I got angry, I don’t know what came over me, I started arguing and she told me to leave her office, I told her if I don’t leave, what is she going to do?
“She then threw a mug at me which injured me and I started beating her,” he added.
Salaudeen said the female lecturer did not fight back, so he went on to beat her and later dragged her out of her office to continue the beating.
”I dragged her out and she ran. I chased and kept beating her before people came. I tried to run but was later caught by the school security,” he stated in the security cell of the institution where he was locked up since he was returned from ‘F’ Divisional Police station, Tanke in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital.
