OAU appeals for calm as roof of lecture theatre collapses during class, injures students

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Rainstorm has caused the roof of Obafemi Awolowo University’s amphitheatre to collapse during a class session, injuring four students.

Eyewitness’ account revealed that there was a whirlwind that collapsed the a section of the roof of Amphi Theatre on Thursday morning and injured four students.

It was gathered that the incident happened around 8:00am.

“Four people have been rushed to the hospital as of 8:45am. The students were rushed to Seventh Day Adventist Hospital but were rejected, but have now been taken to OAUTHC, and the VC is already with the injured students at OAUTHC,” the eyewitness said.

Meanwhile, the management of OAU has called for calm, saying the injured students have been given adequate medical attention.

A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the University, Abiodun Olarewaju disclosed that, “The torrential rainfall of early Thursday morning, accompanied with a whirlwind, which started as students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, were having a lecture, SER to be precise, in the Amphitheatre of the Oduduwa Hall, affected the ceiling of the Amphitheatre as it fell off and injured a few of the students.

“The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire led other principal officers to the Medical and Health Centre of the University, and ensured that the injured students were given adequate medical attention.”

Olarewaju added, “The Vice-Chancellor also followed two other students, whose cases demanded more medical attention to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), where the Chief Medical Director (CMD), Professor John Okeniyi, physically supervised the proceedings.”

The Vice-Chancellor has, therefore, appealed for calm and urged students and staff to go about their academic and administrative activities without any form of untoward action.

Meanwhile, the management of the University, has sealed off the 5000 sitting capacity amphitheatre, the venue of the unfortunate incident, until further notice.