A final year student of department of Micro Biology of the University of Ilorin, Salaudeen Waliu Aanuoluwa commonly known by peers as
Captain Walz, who beat his lecturer Mrs Zakariyau to coma has told his own side of the story to explain what led him to assault his lecturer and supervisor.
He alleged to have gone to the office of the lecturer to plead with her to wave the required SIWES course which he missed due to an unforeseen circumstance.
He claimed to have met Mrs Zakariyau several times, but she still maintained her negative posture over his plight which led to that Thursday assault on the lecturer.
Salaudeen Waliu, while speaking to Journalists claimed that ” months before the last Thursday incident, he was arrested and locked up for two months which restrained him from attending the SIWES duties.”
He said he was at Allen Avenue in Ikeja, Lagos State, to meet a friend for the first time. While waiting for the friend he has a sensation to urinate.
Waliu said he urinated near a car parked by a drainage when he was challenged by someone who must have washed the car.
He said he was accused of being a thief and was not allowed to explain himself before mobs descended on him, meted out jungle justice on him and handed him over to the police which led to his detention for two months.
The final year student said after the incident in Lagos, he approached Mrs Zakariyau to explain his ordeal but said there was no help to offer, except he (Waliu) joined the next set which would result in an extra year.
He said on that fateful Thursday when he entered the lecturer’s office, she ordered him out.
”I got angry, I didn’t know what came over me, and I started arguing with ber and she told me to leave her office, I told her if I don’t leave, what is she going to do?
“She then threw a mug at me which injured me and I started beating her,” he added.
Waliu said the female lecturer did not fight back, so he went on to beat her and later dragged her out off her office to continue the beating.
” I dragged her out and she ran. I chased and kept beating her before people came.
I tried to run but was later caught by the school security,” he stated this in the security cell of the institution where he was locked up.
