A
student of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, Jibrin Aliyat was on Monday night
stabbed to dead by a bike rider leading to student of the polytechnic yesterday
taking to the street, unleashing mayhem on okada rider, burning vehicle and
destroying other valuables property. This has lead to the closure indefinate of
the polytechnic.
The
school Public Relation Officer, Luke Yakubu who disclosed this on phone to
Vanguard said the closure is to avoid further breakdown of law and order. He
also said all students in the hostel are giving till tomorrow (today) to pack
out of the school premises. Further day of resumption will be communicated, he
stressed.
Vanguard gathered that the lady, an ND 11 student of in the
department of Office and Technology Management (OTM) boarded the bike from the
poly gate to her house in Adankola.
On
getting to the house, the lady offered the usual N100 but the bike man said her
fare is now N150 due to the fuel scarcity. Argument over the remaining N50
turned to a heated discussion where the Okada man snatched the lady handset to
use as payment for the remaining N50, “In the process of collecting her handset
back, the Okada, a Fulani man, removed a knife from his pocket and stabbed the
lady”, an eye witness said. Continuing, “Seeing that the lady was bleeding, and
trying to return the knife to his pocket, he mistakenly stab himself on the
thigh and fled away on his bike to the State Specialist hospital; where he was
asked to get a police report before he will be attended to.”
Vanguard
further gathered that luck ran out of him when he was still begging for
treatment at the hospital, as friends and family members also rushed the lady
to the same hospital, sighted him and raised alarm where he was subsequently
arrested. The students the second day, Tuesday (yesterday) in protest unleashed
terrors on any okada man at sighted in revenge of their colleague who later
gave up the ghost at the hospital.
The situation also extended to the nearby international
market where every stall of Hausa/Fulani were destroyed. The students also
burnt down and destroyed many vehicles before security personnel requested for
by the school management could arrived to quell the situation. However, the
students who could not be easily pacified took on the security personnel,
stoned them, while the police also throw in tear gas and shot into the air.
Many of the students took the bush path to escaped the scenario, with many of
them sustaining injury while they scampered for safety.
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