Controversies over alleged rape, robbery attack in UNIZIK hostels

• Published date: 22 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

Controversies have greeted alleged rape and robbery attack in off-campus hostels housing students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State

Some media outfits had reported about nine female students of the institution were raped while over seventeen others were injured when a gang of suspected robbers raided scores of hostels located along Ifite road, Awka.

While Anambra Police Command described the report as mischievous, false and unconfirmed, students of the institution decried what they termed incessant robbery of students in their respective lodges on daily basis.

The Students Union Government, in a statement, titled: 'Our commitment towards a safer Iife', signed by its President, Comrade Charles Ijeomah, condemned the attacks, insisting that the university could not afford to lose any other student to such ugly incidence.

He urged law enforcement agencies whose responsibility remained protection of lives and property of the citizens to rise to the occasion by urgently deploying their patrol team to the area to forestall further occurences.

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He also urged students to remain calm, law abiding and refrain from any form of protest or demonstration, promising to inform them of next line of action in event their expectations were not met.

But Police spokesperson, Tochukwu Ikenga in a statement, who described such media reports as targeted at causing tension and bringing the state to disrepute, warned peddlers to desist fortwith or would not be spared if apprehended.

The statement reads: 'Anambra State Police Command wishes to state that there is no report/record as being peddled by some online media and national dailies tagged seventeen persons...