By Oluwatoyin Adegoke
A Professor of Biochemical Toxicology with the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, FUNAAB, Oladipo Ademuyiwa has been reportedly killed by a hit-and-run driver while attempting to cross the road in his neighbourhood.
The Don was said to have been knocked down around Professor Wole Soyinka’s axis of the recently rehabilitated Kemta-Somorin road by a reckless driver who escaped from the scene.
The Chairman, of Ajebo Road Housing Estate Community Development Association CDA, Dr Ayo Ajasa who told journalists in Abeokuta that the incident happened on Sunday 15th February 2025 said the tragic loss of the university lecturer would have been avoided if the state government had heeded the community’s plea on the need to install speed breakers on the road.
Dr Ajasa described the death of the professor as a quantum loss to the community and the nation given his invaluable contributions to knowledge sharing and dissemination in one of the country’s universities.
He maintained that the unfortunate incident of the Residents of Ajebo Road Housing Estate, Kemta, Abeokuta had thrown the community into mourning and called for immediate government intervention to prevent further tragedies on the road.
