On Friday, the Division of Student Affairs (DSA) of Obafemi Awolowo University directed that the two mosques in Awolowo and Fajuyi Halls be closed down and sealed off with immediate effect.
In a statement obtained by OAU Peeps News Agency and signed by the Acting Dean, DSA, Dr (Mrs) G. O. Akinola, the Division said the move was necessary to prevent any breakdown of law and order and to ensure freedom of movement of persons within the respective halls of residence, especially at this time of dire security concern in the country.
The national executives of the Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN) had visited the university officials last week to express concerns about the activities of members of the 'splinter' MSSN who occupied the mosques. The visitation team led by the President of the National MSSN, Muhammad Jameel Muhammad appealed to the DSA on their fear for the possibility of "emergence on the OAU campus of an extremist group of Muslim students in a fashion similar to the current Boko Haram insurgency besetting Nigeria". They expressed some fears and strongly felt that the splinter MSSN group in OAU and what they referred to as "their strange doctrinal principles and procedures" could lead to the materialization of such fears.
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