Real story of OAU lion attack that killed zoo keeper – NASU
More details have emerged from the horrific death of a zoo keeper, Olabode Olawuyi who was mauled by a lion in the zoological garden of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.
The university’s management, in a statement it released on the incident, said that it did all it could to save the life of the veterinary technologist (Olawuyi), but to no avail. It also said that it had ethunaised the killer lion.
Providing the details of the incident, Wole Odewunmi, the chairman of the National Association of Non-Academic Staff of Universities, OAU branch, revealed that Olawuyi’s heroic act led to his death.
“The lion attacked a woman first. The woman is also a staff working at the zoo.
“The deceased intervened to free the woman from the lion. He must have assumed that the lion would recognise him. His intervention to free the woman must have infuriated the animal. The lion left the woman and attacked him squarely,” Odewunmi reportedly said in a report.
He explained further: “After he was freed from the lion’s grip, they rushed him to the health centre on campus here. He however died before he got there. But the second person that was attacked, a woman, is still on admission receiving treatment presently.”
It is said that the university management had shut down the zoo.
