The remains of Prof. Isaac Ajewole have been buried in Ibadan, Oyo State capital.
Ajewole was a professor of social and environmental forestry at the University of Ibadan (UI) before his death.
He was buried on Tuesday at the Cathedral of St. James The Great Cemetery, Ijokodo, Ibadan.
Ajewole was shot dead in his Olororo, Ojo, Ibadan residence by yet-to-be-identified gunmen on June 5, 2023.
In his sermon at the funeral service held at Men of Issachar Vision International Church, Ibadan, Pastor Samson Ajetumobi said the deceased was cut short at his prime.
He said that those who killed the scholar would also die the same way because the blood of the deceased would be revenged.
“It is 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. God determines our days. When you read through the scriptures, you will see that dying is okay but killing is bad.
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“God hates anyone who sheds blood of the innocent. Nobody owns life. If a man kills, he will account for it,” he said.
Among those who attended the funeral were the vice-chancellor of UI, Prof. Kayode Adebowale; registrar, 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.
On Monday, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), UI branch, berated security operatives over the delay in arresting the killers weeks after the incident.
