The remains of slain Professor of Social and Environmental Forestry, at the University of Ibadan (UI) Prof. Isaac Ajewole have been laid to rest at the Cathedral of St. James The Great Cemetery, Ijokodo, Ibadan.
The deceased who was gunned down in his Olororo, Ojo, Ibadan residence by yet-to-be-identified assailants on June 5, 2023 was an Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan (UI) branch.
During the funeral service at Men of Issachar Vision Int, Ibadan, Pastor Samson Ajetumobi, said the deceased was cut short at his prime.
He laid a curse that those who planned and killed the deceased will also die by gun because the blood of the deceased would be revenged.
Speaking further, he said it okay to die because it is the price human beings have to pay but it is not okay to kill because it is punishable before God and men.
Dignitaries at the funeral were the Vice Chancellor of UI Prof. Kayode Adebowale; Registrar, Mr. J.O. Saliu; Pro. Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho, Prof. Deji Omole; Director General of Forest Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), Prof. Zachariah Buba Yaduma and the Provost, Federal College of Forestry, Ibadan, Prof. Funmi Aderonmu among others.
