UNN students alarmed at kidnapping of students on campus

Latest abductors ask for N5.5m

By Uche Amadi

Students of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, (UNN) have expressed deep concern over the kidnapping of students right inside the school campus.

This week, a first year student of the Department of Education English Philomena Chukwuemeka was kidnapped inside the Campus by unknown persons said to be armed with short guns.

The incidence shook the campus to its foundation given the fact that the kidnappers were said to have invaded the campus, picked the lady without any threat to the criminals.

“We are worried. Home is not safe. The streets are a threat and now, death has come to live with us on the campus,” Adaeze Chukwuma, a student of Mass Communication told Irohinoodua.

He said the hostels were not protected adding that while asleep students do so with one eye open.

Another student was also said to have been kidnapped near the Faculty of Social Sciences on Monday bringing the number of students in tragic encounters to three in less than 10 days.

Philomena was said to have been kidnapped around Bello hostel located inside the campus.

She had told her friends she was going to meet another friend. But few hours later her destination was unknown.

Eyewitnesses had said she was sighted being abducted by some men that came into the school campus with guns.

Later, her phone was used to call her parents and friends. The abductors demanded for N5.5m before she would be released.

Many students of the Premier University are worried that the armed men left the school undetected by the security operatives.

Two weeks ago, a lady who was earlier declared missing was found dead inside the school campus.

The University of Nigeria, (Nsukka) is located in Anambra State with another campus in Enugu. The school is the oldest and by far the most prestigious in the Igbo heartland.