There is rising fear among the
students of the Federal University Otuoke (FUO), in Otuoke Community in Ogbia
Local Government Area of Bayelsa State over the mysterious killing of two
undergraduates by unknown persons with corpses dumped inside the University community.
One of the victims, identified as
Edwin Tochi Eze, popularly known as Tochiba, was a 100-level student of the
Mathematics Education department and recently won the Mr. Education Contest for
Male category, was found dead on Tuesday his birthday night with multiple
machete cuts and dumped along a street close to his hostel of residence.
The other victim simply
identified as Chimzi Ejekwu Lloyd popularly known as Chimzi, was found dead in
a bush with a gunshot wounds on the chest and reported to have been shot at a
close range.
It was gathered that a close
friend to Tochi known as Sammy Majestic had on Monday declared him missing.
According to Sammy, “We were
together yesterday evening during our normal jokes and play, he ran out of the
house and did not come back. We were very worried and have contacted his
friends and family. We even called his phone but it was switched off.”
His lifeless body was later
discovered close to his residence on Tuesday.
Another close source disclosed
that they were celebrating Edwin’s birthday in his hostel room and he suddenly
ran out of his room soaked with water poured on him as signs of celebration,
but that was the last time he was seen until he was found dead.
Some security sources expressed
fear that the mystery killings may be due to a silent cult war going on in the
area.
The case has, however, been
transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department of the State Police
Command in Yenagoa, the State capital.
When contacted, the Vice
Chancellor, Prof. Seth Accra Jaja informed our correspondent through text
message that he was in Abuja on official duty and directed him to contact the
Deputy Vice Chancellor.
Attempts, however, to reach the
DVC proved abortive.
It was however, gathered
that the authority of the institution led by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Seth
Accra Jaja had on Tuesday summoned an emergency meeting with the Student Union
Government (SUG) led by Comrade Debekeme Kojo, ethnic leaders, various faculty
executives and departmental executives and the leadership of the Otuoke
community, over the recent Issues of insecurity challenges among the student
community.
The
meeting, presided over by the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Prof. Bio Nyananyo,
identified the various forms of criminal activities were raised with security
mechanism of handling such cases as it affect the student community.
He said, “Having heard the views
and opinions of various leaders,the institution made it clear that the issue of
insecurity will be dealt with meticulously by engaging various security
apparatus such as forming alliance with the host community to checkmate the
activities of criminals.
“We should note that security is
every man’s business and as such we must be very vigilant and report incidents
of crimes to the appropriate authorities. The school management has also
provided a platform in which we can dispatch information as regards to suspected
cases within our neighborhood.”
When contacted, the Police Public
Relations Officer, Butwats Asimin, confirmed the situation and said the corpses
have been deposited at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Otuoke, for further
investigation.
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