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From UZOR EMMANUEL UZOR ABAKALIKI.
Angry students of Ebonyi State University have unleashed terror on residents
of Abakaliki, the state capital.
During the stampede, which lasted several hours, the irate students set bonfires
at strategic spots, while several cars and valuable properties were destroyed
in the process.
National Daily investigations showed that the angry students were protesting
the death of a third year student of the Department of Medicine and Surgery
with the University from a motor accident.
Police gave the name of the dead student as Mr. Celestine Mbam. .
Investigations by National Daily revealed that the late Celestine was knocked
down last Sunday while he was returning from an evening fellowship.
He was said to have been knocked down, when a driver of Onitsha South mass
transit rammed his vehicle into an Okada which was conveying the late Celestine.
The accident was said to have occurred at Presco junction along Abalaliki,
Enugu Expressway.
The students who due to a heavy downpour on that fateful day were unable to
come out to the scene of the incident mobilized themselves the following morning
at the junction which leads to the campus and started burning tyres, blocking
the road and chanting war songs which attracted the law enforcement agencies.
It took the intervention of detailed mobile policemen to quell the disturbances,
but not until hoodlums had infiltrated the irate students to wreck more havoc
within the metropolis.
Speaking during the protest, the course representative of the 300 level of
medicine and surgery, Mr. Kevin Nweke said the action of the students was
prompted by the nonchalant attitude of the state government ‘’to
come to the aid of the students by building either a Round-About or Fly Over
at that particular junction.’’
Dependable sources said about 50 students of the same University, have died
from motor accidents at the same junction.
Nweke also said the students ‘’were only demonstrating to force
the state government to do something to prevent further accidents at the junction.’’
‘’We are not ready to continue dying like fowls in the hands of
the reckless and unprofessional drivers,’’ he said, adding; ‘’All
we are saying is for the state government to build fly over on this road because
it has been a terror for our students and as you know, most of our students
come from the town and they must cross this road which quite alright is a
busy road.’’
Another student who spoke to National Daily under anonymity said the students
decided to mobilize so that they would carry the message to the Governor Martin
Elechi.
The closest friend of the deceased who narrated how Celestine was killed could
not control his tears as he said: ‘’We were coming home from the
church and the rain was very heavy; we passed and as Celestine was trying
to cross with the Okada man that was carrying him, the driver of Onitsha South
cannot control his speed and ran into them and smashed them.’’
.
A Catholic clergy and a course-mate to the victim said, ‘’Celestine,
who was training himself in school, came from a very humble family in Izzy
where all other members were looking up to him for their daily bread.’’
.
Addressing the angry students, the President Students Union government of
the university, Comrade Oshim Chinemerem pleaded with them ‘’
to take it easy and stop burning tyres on the road.’’
Also speaking, the Chairman, National Association Nigerian Students NANS,
Mr. Obidigwe Chinedu said the situation called for the urgent attention of
both the state and federal government ‘’so as to arrest the ugly
trend.’’
Addressing the angry students, the state Commissioner of Police, Ebonyi Mr.
Emmanuel Udorji advised them ‘’to calm down over their grievances.’’
