Akanbi: Kwasu declares 7 days mourning as AbdulRazaq, UNILORIN  VC mourn

 

The management of Kwara State University Malete, Monday, declared seven days mourning in honour of its late Vice Chancellor, Professor, Muhammed Akanbi, who died Sunday night. 

In a statement  issued by the Registrar of the institution, Dr Kikeloma W. Sallee, the management directed the suspension of all activities from Monday Novermber 21, 2022.

The statement urged all staff and students of the institution to put the deceased, his family ans entire institution in their prayers for God to grant them fortitude to bear the loss.

The statement reads, “As we all mourn the passing of our dear Vice Chancellor, Professor Muhammad Mustapha Akanbi SAN which sad event occurred yesterday November 20, 2022, a one week of mourning has been declared in the University.

“All activities are hereby suspended in the University from today Monday November 21 till Sunday November 27, 2022 for us to mourn this immense loss.

“I urge everyone to put the wife, children and family of Professor Akanbi in prayers as well as the University.

“May Allah forgive his sins, widen his grave and grant him admission into jannatul Firdaus.

“May the University community never again witness such an unfortunate loss”.

Reaching to the news of the demise of the vice chancellor, the state governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq described as painful and shocking the death of  Prof Akanbi.

“We submit to the decree of Allah who gives and takes. It is against that backdrop that we mourn the Vice Chancellor who answered Allah’s call tonight. He was a true and humble servant of Allah and we beseech our God, the Oft-Forgiving and Merciful, to grant him al-jannah Firdaus,” the governor said in a statement Sunday night by his chief press Secretary Rafiu Ajakaye.

“The professor of law was a colossus who played the leading role to open a new chapter of academic excellence and greatness for KWASU. Our condolences go to his family, immediate and extended, to KWASU and the rest of the academic community, and to members of the bar and the bench in Kwara State and across the country,” he added.

Also commiserating with the KWASU management and the deceased’s family, Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Wahab Olasupo Egbewole, SAN, described the death of Prof. Akanbi as “tragic and a colossal loss not only to KWASU and the University of Ilorin but to the entire humanity”.

In a statement signed by the Director of Corporate Affairs, University of Ilorin, Mr Kunle Akogun, the UNILORIN vice chancellor also recalled that the late Prof  Akanbi’s services at KWASU would also be remembered in the realm of exemplary leadership and the recent approval of several new courses, particularly Medicine and Surgery, saying that KWASU has lost a reformer.”