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Nigeria: Students' Clash - Fear Grips Community
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This Day (Lagos)
6 May 2008
Posted to the web 7 May 2008
Amby Uneze
Owerri
The Eziobodo Community in Owerri West Local Government of Imo State, host community of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) has cried to the State Government to urgently provide security for them against the attack by students of the University.
Disclosing this to newsmen yesterday, the President General of Eziobodo Development Union (EDU), Chief Alex Nwachukwu raised an alarm that the students of the institution have perfected plans to attack the community upon their return from the two weeks break imposed by the University authority following the clash between the Students and the community last week.
Already the State Government has set up an Investigative Panel to look into the remote causes of the clash, which left many people injured and property destroyed, following an armed robbery attack that left one student dead.
According to Nwachukwu, "we want government and the panel to secure our lives and property because from reliable sources the students are planning heavily to attack the community upon resumption."
He appealed to the government to come to their aid as property worth several millions of Naira, including their market were destroyed during the crises, according to the EDU President, such gesture would help alleviate their present suffering.
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Nwachukwu pleaded for a lasting solution to the problem, noting that the community and the students have been living in harmony prior to the crisis.
He praised the prompt action taken by the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Celestine Onwuliri, who immediately visited the community in company of the university's authorities, where he expressed shock on the level of damages recorded during the clash.
Similarly the Traditional Ruler of the community, HRH, Eze Samuel Okoroagbara pleaded for prompt intervention stating that the people of the community are now leaving in fear.
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