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.
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