Sekibo Empathises With Aluu 4 Parents, UNIPORT VC

The Senator representing Rivers East Senatorial District,
Chief Thompson Sekibo has condoled the Vice Chancellor of the University of
Port Harcourt, Prof Joseph Ajienka over the brutal killing of four students of
the institution.

Sekibo, who also visited the parents of two of the slain
students in Port Harcourt, said he received the news of the gruesome killing
with shock.

The Senator, who visited authorities of the University
Friday described the killing as satanic, barbaric and painful, insisting that
the law must take its course to unravel the circumstances surrounding the
brutal murder.

While condemning the manner the students were subjected to
jungle justice under the present civilized setting, Senator Sekibo commended
the university authority, security agents and the governor of the state, Rt Hon
Rotimi Amaechi for bringing the situation under control and stopping academic
activities in the university to forestall further crises.

“After watching it on screen, one can’t believe that this
kind of thing can happen considering the efforts of the governor on security of
the state’, he said, and advised community leaders to assess the type of people
living around them.

The lawmaker, however, cautioned students against reprisal
attacks on the community and to allow the law take its course.

Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof Joseph Ajienka, had
earlier told the visiting Senator that for over 30 years, the institution had
maintained cordial relationship with its host communities, noting that such
ugly development had never happened before.

He said the murder of the four students in Aluu, a community
barely three kilometers away from the institution had affected the psyche of
the university.

Prof Ajienka revealed that the fourth victim who was not
identified earlier (Tekena Elkanah has however been identified as a certificate
student in the Faculty of Education of the institution.

He commended Senator Sekibo for his show of concern, and
Nigerians for their outpouring of emotion, and urged security agencies to do
everything possible to ensure that those behind the dastardly act were brought
to book.

Earlier in the day, Senator Sekibo had paid condolence visit
to parents of Mike Lloyd Toku and Friday Elkanah.

The mother of Mike Lloyd Toku, Mrs Toku Mike had accused the
police of trying to cover up their role during the ugly incident.

Mrs Mike said evidence abound that policemen were present
while the innocent students were being murdered, saying instead of making
reasonable effort to save them, the police watched idly while the students were
gruesomely killed.

Meanwhile, Aluu community in Rivers State, where four
students of University of Port Harcourt were gruesomely murdered on October 5,
2012, has absolved itself from killing the students at Omuokiri village, Aluu.
The community blamed non-indigenes residing at Aluu for the dastardly act.

Addressing a press conference at Obiri Aluu last weekend,
the community’s apex socio-cultural body, Ogbakor Aluu said unlike the  rumours making  the rounds, the Aluu community does not have
a vigilante group which was reportedly accused of killing the students.

The community’s spokesman, Mr Gashion Benson told newsmen
that Aluu has no vigilante group.

Goodluck Ukwe & Chris Oluoh