31st May, 2023
By Adedeji Egbebi
The Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has reacted to a viral report on alleged invasion of its campus by a ”battalion of millipedes.”
The University, in a statement by its Chief Security Officer of the university, Mr Paul Ogidi, said the appearance of some insects in some parts of the campus is as a result of the rainy season.
He, however, added that the authorities of the University are already taking steps to control the spread of the insects.
“The management noticed it just a week ago and immediately fumigated the university campus properly,” the mangement said.
Speaking in the same vein, the Chief Medical Director of FUOYE Health Centre, Dr Olawale Musibau said cases of multiple of centipedes and not milipedes appearing on the university campus was not limited to the institution environment.
Musibau said management of the university has already swung into action by fumigating the environment and carried out necessary sanitation.
Similarly,the Deputy Vice Chancellor Administration, Prof. Tajudeen Opoola, said there was cause for alarm over the alleged invasion of centipedes.
” We are also making plans to get rid of the overgrown grasses around us,” he said.
(NAN)