The family of Babalola has been thrown into confusion and anxiety after their son, Obafunto Babalola, a 300-level student of Architecture at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) was last seen on April 7.
Operatives of the Lagos State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba are investigating the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the 21-year-old UNILAG undergraduate, according to reports.
Obafunto was last seen a few blocks from where he lived in a hostel outside the campus at 51b Johnson Street, Onike Road in Yaba area of Lagos.
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It was gathered that he got missing at about 8am on his way back from his friend’s lodge where he spent the night.
Ironically, his phone was recovered from a dry cleaner in the neighbourhood who claimed he found it on a parked vehicle opposite his house, the same day he went missing.
The Father of the missing student, Collins Babalola while narrating how his son disappeared on Friday, April 7th around 8 am, said; “We received the news that same Friday from his friends who lived in the same vicinity with him and they saw each other regularly.
“If they didn’t see each other in a span of two hours, they would call. They were always together. So they checked on each other every two or three hours. They said they saw him around 6 am, because on this particular day he slept in his friend’s hostel.
“His friends that saw him last said they saw him around 6 am and he was meant to be going back to his hostel.
“When we received the news that he had gone missing, we reported the case at Adekunle Police station, Yaba.
“The police said they would go to Ikeja where their radio control was to reach out to all the stations, area commands and police posts. We were told that they radioed on Sunday and that he was not in any police custody,” he told Vanguard.
