Unknown Gunmen Kill Student of Rivers State University …Wike Queries Vice Chancellor over killing, tension in university

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Tension on Tuesday enveloped the Rivers State University, Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt, following the killing of a final year student of the institution on Monday.
On Tuesday, there was shooting around the university and the adjoining Mile 3 area ostensibly in reaction to the killing.
Reacting to the incidents, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has issued a query to the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Blessing Didia, over reports of shooting within the school's campus and complaints of 'sorting' within the university system.

Last Monday, yet-to-be-identified gunmen shot and killed a final year student of the university in what was seen as an attack by cultists.


The victim, who was identified as Prince Tuaka of the faculty of Agriculture, was shot in the head and he later died at a nearby hospital where he was rushed to for medical attention.

It was gathered that the victim was shot in front of the Niger Delta Development Commission hostel within the school campus where he had allegedly gone to see a girlfriend.
Tuaka, said to be the only child of his parents, w3as suspected by some students to be a cultist.
According to a student who would not want to be named in the print, "The victim was shot in the head in front of NDDC hostel where he had gone to look for his girlfriend.



"He was the only child of the his parents, some of his friends that broke the news of his death to his mother said she could not bear to believe that her only son has been killed, he died at a nearby hospital after he was rushed for medical attention."



There were reports of tension in the institution as some yet-to-be-identified young men moved from one lecture room to the other as if looking for someone.



The young men, suspected to be friends of the slain student, were said to have also snatched mobile phones from unsuspecting students before the police arrived the school to forestall the breakdown of peace and order in the campus.

Narrating the incident to reporters, a student said: "There had been heavy presence of policemen in the campus since morning today, after a group of unidentified men entered the school and started moving from one classroom to the other in an aggressive manner as if they were looking for someone to 

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