So Tragic: 2 Students Found Dead Floating In Osun River

The people of Ijetu area of Osun State were thrown into disarray yesterday, Jan. 29th, when the corpses of two students of the Ifeolu Secondary School were yesterday a woman who had gone to fetch water found them floating on river Osun. What led to the death of the students has not yet been ascertained. The case was reported to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and a rescue team from the agency was immediately deployed to the scene.
According to reports gathered, the students had gone missing since Monday and their parents had been looking for them, the parents were said to have broken down in tears on seeing the corpses of their children.

The names of the students were identified as Samson Obasanjo while the other was simply identified as Kabiru. Both were in Junior Secondary School 2.

Mr. Olufemi Awofade, Head, Disaster Rescue Team of NSCDC in Osun State, said that after recovering the students’ corpses, their parents took charge and called worshippers of Osun goddess to perform certain rites according to Yoruba tradition, before they would be buried at the river bank.

Awofade said: “They told us that a woman went to fetch water at Odo Osun on Wednesday and saw corpses in the water. She was said to have run back and told the people around and information got to us. We moved to the river and brought out the bodies, who we later discovered to be students of Ifeolu Secondary School. They called Osun worshippers to perform some rites on the corpses before they could be buried.”