Thursday, October 11, 2012

UNIPORT killings: Community counts losses after students’ rampage


Vandalised vehicles. Inset:Ahanonu in his burnt house.
THE people of Omuokiri Aluu Community have begun to count their losses barely 24 hours after students from the University of Port Harcourt embarked on reprisals to avenge the killings of their colleagues.
The angry students had on Tuesday stormed the community, burnt some houses, cars and other property over the torture and murder of the students on Friday.
Four undergraduates of UNIPORT were lynched by a mob comprising members of the community for allegedly stealing laptop computer and a BlackBerry phone.
The students were Biringa Chiadika of the Theatre Arts Department; Ugonna Obuzor of Geology Department, Mike Toku Llyod of Civil Engineering Department and Tekena Erikena.
When our correspondent visited the community on Wednesday, few of the indigenes were seen bemoaning their losses.
One of the leaders of the community, Sunday Ahanonu, said he had lost all he laboured for to the students’ reprisals.
Ahanonu, whose house was torched by the students, expressed shock that security agents could not stop the rampaging students when they stormed the community.
Sixty-five-year-old Ahanonu and father of 15 children, worked at UNIPORT for 35 years before he retired.
He appealed to the state government and the management of the university to compensate him for the destruction of his property, adding that he and members of his family were not involved in the killings of the students.
Ahanonu said, “I am a retired civil servant. I worked with UNIPORT for 35. But all I have achieved for many years have been destroyed by students from the university. I don’t know where my family and I will lay our heads when my only house has been burnt.
“I lost the sum of N850,000 cash, which I kept in my house. I could not take the money to the bank because I was not feeling okay and went to the hospital. It was at the hospital that I learnt that my house was burnt by the students.”
Also, a woman, who identified herself as Pauline Nwakwo, told our correspondent that she left the village when she learnt that security agents had embarked on mass arrest, but came back to notice that her bar had been burgled.
According to her, the rampaging students forcibly entered her bar and carried away her deep freezer and drinks.
She said, “As a woman, I had to run away when we noticed that the police were embarking on mass arrest. The students broke the door to my bar and took away a deep freezer I bought for N66,000. I want government to pay me back all I have lost.
“The students were killed far from here at the Burrow pit. We don’t know anything about the killings of the students.”
Indigenes of the community were also seen leaving their homes in droves to other places in order to avoid being attacked by the students.
One of them, who gave her name as Comfort, said she was relocating her children to Elele in Rivers State and would only return to Omuokiri Aluu whenever normalcy returns.
An artisan, Mr. Wisdom Ajuwon, who repairs home appliances along the Omuokiri Aluu Road, said he lost property worth about N500,000 to the riotous students.
Showing a list of what he lost to the fire ignited by students, Ajuwon also appealed to the state government to come to his aid.
A cleric in the area, Pastor John Paul, described the situation in the community as terrible, adding that people were running out of their homes like refugees.

11 comments:

  1. well, they (ALUU Community) have started counting their losses. if the Rivers state govt fails to arrest the cannibal(it is only a cannibal that kills and set ablaze his fellow human being)and have them killed too, then UNIPORT students shouldn't stop the rampage and the reprisals. i hope they torched and destroyed the community chiefs house as well. Rivers state govt is a disgrace and the people of ALLU too.

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  2. They have never even started counting what they lost.they can run to the Moon for all I care.it is said that there is no hiding place for the evil mind,wherever they may run to nemesis has already caught up with them.The voices of the 4 innocent blood is crying and will never rest until the evil Aluu community is wiped on this planet.what they should do is to bring out the killers not running away! It is said that the evil that men do lives with them,Aluu community is now dancing the dance of the spirit!God punish you all!

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  3. People are counting material losses. What then will the families of the fallen count? That's how badly the society have degenerated, material gains now placed high above human lives.
    I plead JUSTICE FOR ALUU4

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  4. Dey ar countinng useless loses,giving flimsy excuses dt dey were nt around whn d killin was taken place......as long as aluu community exists,nthg gd shall be deirs,dey shall suffer 4 d rest of deir lives nd even deir children nd future generatn shall knw no peace.....Aluu,d people nd evrth abt it is CURSED 4 LIFE.......

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  5. they re counting material loss..hw I wish d student of uniport will kill them 1 by 1 or kill a son in each of d family then they will knw wat they did is bad....useless aluu pple...this is Jst d beginning....

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  6. dem never see anything,dem never no anything wan shoot them,wan follow them, wan touch them,.....no b beans ooo , na live show- na mr 2face lyrics.

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  7. They want compensation,wicked people,who is going to compensate the families of the dead students,they should all go jump in the lagoon.

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  8. They ve not Seen anything yet.this is just d beginning.cannibals!

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  9. Some are inhuman we ar talking about de human losse and deai ar takeing addvantag of it to claim wat deai hav naver achive in deai life dat is to Show u hw weked de pple in aluu village can be!!! May God show mercy on dem,,, may God deliver dem for wat dey hav don!!! Dey wekednss...

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  10. The bible says,the place of the wicked shall become desolate, and that there is no peace for the wicked, this is for the pple of ALUU Community.

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  11. Dey neva c any thing imagine d robbish way dem de talk allu or na watin b dat una name u wil no peace amen

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