NANS, NURSS Mourn Slain UNIPORT Students

One week after the brutal murder of four students of the
University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) in Aluu Town,  the National Association of Nigeria Students
(NANS) and the National Union of Rivers State Students (NURSS), have described
their death as painful and shocking.

In a “Save Our Souls” message, the NURSS National President,
UNIPORT, Mr. Warmate Awoloye, told The Tide in Port Harcourt, that the students
were trying to get over the shock of the death of about 40 students in Mubi
Polytechnic, in Adamawa State.

Awoloye said little did the students know that another evil
attack could be lynched on four students of UNIPORT in the same October of
2012.

He recalled that in 2010, UNIPORT  lost about two students.

According to the NURSS President, those killers took laws
into their own hands by killing their fellow human beings for mere allegations.

He said the union has utterly condemned the act and shall
not saddle themselves with why they were killed.

He maintained that justice must prevail and enjoined the
authorities concerned to ensure that all those involved in the brutal murder of
those four students are brought to book.

He described their death as unfortunate since according to
the NURSS National President, “we cannot hear from the dead”.

It would be recalled that the Student Union Government (SUG)
of the University of Port Harcourt, had issued a two-week ultimatum to the Aluu
Community in Ikwerre local government area of Rivers Sate to provide to the
security agencies, the killers of the four “UNIPORT students”.

The SUG President, Maxwell Soye Nyamabo, gave the warning
during a peaceful demonstration by students at Choba.

The Tide also recalls that at a press briefing last Tuesday,
in Choba, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, Prof. Joseph
A. Ajienka, had identified the three students out of the four that were
murdered as Biringa Chiadika Lordson, a 200-level – threatre Arts student, with
Matric No. U2010/1805036, Ugonna Kelechi Obuzor, 200-level Geology student with
Matric No. U2010/5565149 and Lloyd Toku Mike, a 200-level Civil Engineering
student with Matric No. U2010/3010094, while the fourth, Tekena Ezikena, was
yet to be identified as a student of the university.

Eunice Choko-Kayode