4 UNILAG Students Arrested Over Dead Student Killed With "Sniper"

The Ogun state Police command has confirmed the arrest of four University of Lagos (UNILAG) students over the death of one Eniola Jacobs believed to have died from intake of a poisonous chemical used in killing mosquitoes and pests popularly called “Sniper” The four students name were given as Adeboye Timothy, Aramowo Stephen, Raphael Awe-Obe and Iwerima Jacob who according to Police were in the same campus fellowship of the Cherubim and Seraphim campus fellowship with the deceased Eniola Jacobs.

According to the spokesman of the Ogun State Police command the Police Public relation Office Olumuyiwa adejobi, the four students were arrested at the grave side of the dead UNILAG students in what the police described as acting suspiciously to exhume the buried body of eniola. This according to the PPRO was suspicious and unacceptable to the parents of the deceased  as well as strange to the Police as they claim they wanted to exhume the body for possible Eniola’s resurrection from the dead. They are currently being detained  at the criminal investigations department of the Eleweran Division in Abeokuta the Ogun State capital.

Eniola Jacobs before he died on Sunday at the Lagos University Teaching hospital LUTH was a 300 level student of Microbiology of the university who was reported to have committed suicide by intentionally drinking the poisonous chemical Colleagues of the deceased, who were at the scene of the incident, told reporters that a bottle of Pepsi and a container bearing the chemical were found in his bag shortly after the incident, which took place at the library of the Faculty of Education  His screams were coming from the Education Library. He was assistance and taken to the Alpha Base from where he was moved to the hospital," a classmate said. The deceased was said to have shouted: "sniper...sniper..!" while running out of the library and calling for help.

                              

Meanwhile, two accounts have emerged on the cause of the deceased's death. One account has it that cult members must have forced him to take the sniper while his colleagues said he could have taken the action out of acute depression. Investigation on the cause of Eniola’s death has already commenced by the Lagos State Police Command based on the allegation that he was forced by some cult members to take the toxic substance.