Kogi Poly Boils As Okada Rider Stabs Female Student To Death

A student of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, Jibrin Aliyat was on Monday night stabbed to death by a bike rider leading to student of the polytechnic yesterday taking to the street, unleashing mayhem on okada riders, burning vehicles and destroying other valuables property. 

This has lead to the closure indefinite of the polytechnic. 

The school Public Relation Officer, Luke Yakubu who disclosed this on phone to Vanguard said the closure is to avoid further breakdown of law and order. He also said all students in the hostel are given till tomorrow (today) to pack out of the school premises. Further day of resumption will be communicated, he stressed. 

Vanguard gathered that the lady, an ND 11 student of in the department of Office and Technology Management (OTM) boarded the bike from the poly gate to her house in Adankola. On getting to the house, the lady offered the usual N100 but the bike man said her fare is now N150 due to the fuel scarcity. Argument over the remaining N50 turned  heated and the Okada man snatched the lady's handset to use as payment for the remaining N50..

 “In the process of collecting her handset back, the Okada, a Fulani man, removed a knife from his pocket and stabbed the lady,Seeing that the lady was bleeding, and trying to return the knife to his pocket, he mistakenly stabbed himself on the thigh and fled away on his bike to the State Specialist hospital; where he was asked to get a police report before he will be attended to.” 

Vanguard further gathered that luck ran out of him when he was still begging for treatment at the hospital, as friends and family members also rushed the lady to the same hospital, sighted him and raised alarm where he was subsequently arrested. The students the second day, Tuesday (yesterday) in protest unleashed terrors on any okada man at sighted in revenge of their colleague who later gave up the ghost at the hospital. The situation also extended to the nearby international market where every stall of Hausa/Fulani were destroyed. The students also burnt down and destroyed many vehicles before security personnel requested for by the school management arrived to quell the situation.

 However, the students who could not be easily pacified took on the security personnel, stoned them, the police also threw in tear gas and shot into the air. Many of the students took the bush path to escape the scenario, with many of them sustaining injuries while they scampered for safety. When Vanguard visited the school, some of the students were seen inside the school still roaring while the security personnel kept vigil at the gate that was partially closed to forestall any trouble. President of the Student Union, Idris Abdulrasaq said the situation went out of control when outside forces took advantage of the protest to loot and in turn destroyed many vehicles. 

He said the suspected fear that police will at end still release the culprit made them led the protest before it went out of control, but said he has been persuading his colleagues to remain calm so that relevant authority can take up the case. .....