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.
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