Police Confirm 400-Level RSU Student’s Killing

The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the killing of a 400-level final year student of Rivers State University, who was shot dead at the campus, yesterday.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Superintendent of Police Nnamdi Omoni, said the killer of the final year student has also been arrested while the corpse of the victim has been deposited in an undisclosed mortuary in Port Harcourt.
Omoni said one locally made gun was recovered from the assailant, whose name was yet to be ascertained while investigation into the incident has commenced as directed by the state Commissioner of Police, Friday Eboka.
It would be recalled that the male student said to be in 400-level at Faculty of Management Science in Rivers State University, Nkpolu-Orowurokwo, Port Harcourt, was, yesterday, allegedly shot death by one ‘Peruzi’, a 300-level student at the Faculty of Management Sciences.
A source disclosed that the alleged assailant, ‘Peruzi’, was later apprehended by the school security and handed over to officers of the Nigerian police attached to Nkpolu Divisional Police Headquarters, Mile 3, Diobu, adding that the arrested student was suspected to be a member of Vikings cult group, while his victim was said to be a member of Ku Klux Klans (KKK) cult group.
The eyewitness, who did not want his name mentioned, said the deceased was shot on his head, adding that the shooting resulted to pandemonium in the school as students and staff scampered for safety.
As at press time, security operatives were intensely patrolling inside RSU campus to forestall reprisals and total breakdown of law and order.

By: Amadi Akujobi