The University of Uyo (UNIUYO) in Akwa Ibom, South-South Nigeria, is currently burning as students riot over the alleged shooting of four of their colleagues by the police.
“Four of our colleagues have just been shot dead by the police,” a UNIUYO student told News Express. “It’s unfortunate.”
An Uyo-based journalist, Akaninyene Oton, named Kingsley Okon Edet
a.k.a Kesy as one of those shot dead by the police. He said that the
offices of the Vice Chancellor, Professor (Mrs.) Comfort Memfin Ekpo,
and the Registrar have been burnt down. “UNIUYO right now is still
burning as police take over adjoining streets,” Oton said.
News Express learnt that trouble started when the Vice
Chancellor ordered students of the Faculty of Science to move to the
Main Campus at Nwaniba. The students asked for buses to convey them to
lectures in view of the distance and launched a protest when the request
was not granted. This afternoon, UNIUYO authorities called in the
police, then tragedy.
According to Oton, there has been “heavy shootings and tear-gassing
along Ikot Ekpene, Ikpa, Ibiam roads by UNIUYO axis by the police to
disperse the protesting students.”
A UNIUYO student interviewed by News Express blamed the school
authorities, saying that the relocation of the students should not have
been done mid-session.
The VC of University of Uyo is always wanting to see things with her eyes. Now she has seen it. The rioting students just needed "assembling", simple, but no one volunteered to do that before the students. So, that is why...
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