Fear grips Bayelsa Varsity over mystery killing of two undergraduates

There is rising fear among the students of the Federal University 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.

While one of the victims, identified as Edwin Tochi Eze popularly known as Tochiba, was a 100 level student of the Mathematics Education department and recent won the Mr. Education Contest for Male category. He was found dead on Tuesday 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 wound to the chest. He was reported to have been shot at a close range.

NAIJA LIVE TV gathered yesterday that a close friend to Tochi known as Sammy Majestic had on Monday declared 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.” The corpse was later discovered close to his residence on Tuesday.

Some security sources expressed the 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 to contact the Deputy Vice Chancellor. Attempts however to contact the DVC proved abortive.

One of the students, whose cry was monitored on the FUO Campus gist page on face book, expressed the fears over the rising cases of insecurity around the students’ community,” I am tired of typing RIP. Tired of hearing “it didn’t happen in Campus and tired of the fact that there are no hostels in FUO. I’m fed up with the fact that 95% of students live off campus yet security system is not present and our management seems not to care”.

“I am angered by the fact that only three properties in the entire Otuoke has top notch security provided by the military because they belong to You Know Who. To the rest of us, OYO is our case.I feel pain, I feel pain, I feel sorrow and sadness, anger and anguish I feel…”

Another student, was quoted at saying that “The only buildings that are secured and the only fortress in Otuoke, home of former President, Dr.  Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, his wife’s hotel directly opposite Federal University, Otuoke and another unoccupied building somewhere along Olumba road. At each of these structures is a fortified military check point. These security apparatus only safeguard these aforementioned places and even if there’s trouble close by, they don’t give a damn!”

“This month alone, we’ve witnessed series of death of students of FUO, no security, not even a police station in the entire community hosting a Federal institution. None is even nearby.

From incessant kidnappings of staff and students to the maiming and killing of students in successions, no arrest has been made. I will tell you more later. It is a sad tale. There is pandemonium in Otuoke right now because of the fracas between students and the CSO of former president GEJ during a randy movement by students over the corpse of another student that got missing on Monday and was found dead today”.

“As usual, after live ammunition was fired by the military, the story was twisted that students (who were harmless and armless and in company of the SUG president), opened fire at the military personnel”. 

NAIJA LIVE TV  however gathered that the Institution authority 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.

NAIJA LIVE TV  gathered that 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, “Having heard the views and opinions of various leaders the, 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 crimes”.

“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.”

A member of the Editorial board of the Institution’s leading online news medium, known as FUO Campus Gist, who pleaded anonymity,confirmed the rising fear among students,”It is worrisome”.

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