Stray Bullet Kills WAEC Student: Oriyomi Hamzat Shares Grief, Reveals Family’s Painful Truth

Ibadan was thrown into mourning after 17-year-old WAEC candidate, Kehinde Alade, was killed by a stray bullet on May 20, 2025, while heading to his exam centre. Now, broadcaster Oriyomi Hamzat has revealed more about the shattered family he left behind.

Kehinde, a promising student, was struck down by a bullet allegedly fired by a police officer. The incident sparked widespread outrage across Oyo State, prompting the government to open a formal investigation.

Speaking during a press conference, Oriyomi Hamzat, visibly moved, disclosed that he met with the boy’s father, who narrated a decade-long struggle of raising his children alone. Kehinde’s mother, Hamzat revealed, abandoned the family nine years ago and has not returned since.

According to Hamzat, the grieving father shared how he had remained unmarried and devoted to his children. “He stood in for both parents,” Hamzat noted. He went further to question the long absence of Kehinde’s mother, wondering aloud whether her presence could have changed the boy’s fate.

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“This boy died in pain, in shock, and without his mother by his side,” Hamzat said emotionally.

The tragic death has once again drawn attention to the issues of police recklessness, broken homes, and the weight carried by single parents in Nigeria.

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