By our reporter
A student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra state reportedly sustained injury in an attack by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
The victim, undergoing Joint University Preliminary Examination Board (JUPEB) programme was on his way for night class with his sister when they were attacked.
He reportedly lost some fingers while trying to defend himself from the hoodlums and was quickly rushed to the hospital.
The mother of the victim in her post via WhatsApp, said “My son’s 3 fingers cut off, twin sister wounded”
An impeccable source from the University confirmed the incident, but said only one person sustained injury, contrary to social media report.
The source added that the incident happened around 9pm outside the axis students were concentrated, along the Ifite road.
According to the source, “The young man said the people that attacked him were speaking Hausa.
Dangerous lonely path
“Being a new student, he’s naive to have not known that moving through a lonely path, particularly in the night can be dangerous.
“Actually he was walking through that path with the sister, innocently.
“As soon as they saw the attackers, they started running. But the boy was not lucky enough to outrun them.
“It was alarm from the sister that draw attention of those who rescued him and took him to the hospital before the security team were alerted.”
The source assured that investigation had already commenced and security tightened to ensure there was no repeat of such incident.
CoreTruth gathered that officials from the University had visited the victims at the hospital this morning.
According to the source, the officials included, Dean of Student Affairs, Prof. Kingsley Ubaoji, CSO, Mr. Ken Chukwura, Director of JUPEB, Prof. C. Akunne, Sub-Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Anthony Apiti, and representative of the PRO’s office, Mr. Bonny Nkwuaku.
The university is yet to issue official statement on the incident, while the Police spokesperson, Tochukwu Ikenga is yet to respond to messages sent to him as at time of filing the report.
