Picture Of Prof. Iyayi's Bullet-pierced lifeless Body (Viewers Discretion)
body gives life to suspicions by his colleagues that he may
have been assasinated with Gun.
Along with grief, anger will be the dominant emotion when
Professor Festus Iyayi is buried this week in his hometown,
Ugbegun in Edo State. The two feelings have mixed,
predictably with unsavoury outcomes, since the former
president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities,
ASUU, died on 12 November in an auto
accident on the Lokoja-Abuja Expressway.
Iyayi was travelling to Kano in the company of three other
ASUU members for a meeting on the ongoing strike by
members of the union when a police escort van in the
convoy of the Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State rammed
into the bus the university teachers were travelling. Iyayi
died instantly, while three his colleagues were seriously
injured.
Wada, who was severely injured in an accident involving his
convoy last year, was widely criticised by ASUU and the
wider public for his failure to learn from his own experience
and for allegedly failing to stop to assist the victims.
Was Iyayi Killed? ASUU believes it has what constitutes
prima facie evidence to support its suspicion. Members of
the union point to two holes, one in the chest and another
in the back, as offering a less than complicated indication
that Iyayi was shot. Photographs of Iyayi's corpse obtained
by this magazine, show holes that look like entry and exit
bullet holes.
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