The Nigeria Labour Congress
has expressed shock over the spate of violence and brutal murder of
students in recent times a statement by the President, Abdulwaheed Omar
said.
“While the nation was still dismayed and brimming from the gruesome murder of forty students of The Polytechnic, Mubi Adamawa State, four students of the University of Port Harcourt were tortured and murdered in Aluu, River States”.
“If the murder in Mubi was controversial and shrouded in mystery, that of Aluu was not” said the statement.
The unionists further said that “In Aluu, the students were not only tortured, killed and burnt; those who did these to the students committed the crime in the full glare of the community members who were captured on camera. Thus, we are surprised that several days after the murder of the four students in Aluu, no one has been arrested by security agencies”.
“We strongly condemn these killings as they were most cruel, dastardly and barbaric”.
The NLC called for a halt in the maiming and killing innocent Nigerian student “These renewed violent attacks on students must be stopped with the perpetrators of these heinous and unspeakable murders expeditiously brought to book. Government must not allow the decimation of its youth as they certainly hold the hope of the country”.
Omar blamed the loose security apparatus for not curbing the heinous act, calling on the Inspector General, Mohammed Abubakar, to fish out the perpetrators of the act.
“It is apparent that the failure of our security agencies to combat crime in Nigeria has encouraged the Nigerian public to opt for jungle justice which in most cases, as in the Aluu case, leads to the murder of innocent people”.
“We therefore call on the Inspector General of Police to order thorough investigation, arrest and prosecute all those involved in the murder of the students”.
“The police and the entire security and judicial system in Nigeria need total overhauling to regain the confidence and trust of the public on crime control, arrest and prosecution. This will certainly discourage people from taking laws into their hands, which infringes on the fundamental rights of the victims to life and fair hearing”.
“We also call on the Federal Government to consider compensation to the families of the victims of the killings in Aluu and the mass murder in Mubi”.
“While the nation was still dismayed and brimming from the gruesome murder of forty students of The Polytechnic, Mubi Adamawa State, four students of the University of Port Harcourt were tortured and murdered in Aluu, River States”.
“If the murder in Mubi was controversial and shrouded in mystery, that of Aluu was not” said the statement.The unionists further said that “In Aluu, the students were not only tortured, killed and burnt; those who did these to the students committed the crime in the full glare of the community members who were captured on camera. Thus, we are surprised that several days after the murder of the four students in Aluu, no one has been arrested by security agencies”.
“We strongly condemn these killings as they were most cruel, dastardly and barbaric”.
The NLC called for a halt in the maiming and killing innocent Nigerian student “These renewed violent attacks on students must be stopped with the perpetrators of these heinous and unspeakable murders expeditiously brought to book. Government must not allow the decimation of its youth as they certainly hold the hope of the country”.
Omar blamed the loose security apparatus for not curbing the heinous act, calling on the Inspector General, Mohammed Abubakar, to fish out the perpetrators of the act.
“It is apparent that the failure of our security agencies to combat crime in Nigeria has encouraged the Nigerian public to opt for jungle justice which in most cases, as in the Aluu case, leads to the murder of innocent people”.
“We therefore call on the Inspector General of Police to order thorough investigation, arrest and prosecute all those involved in the murder of the students”.
“The police and the entire security and judicial system in Nigeria need total overhauling to regain the confidence and trust of the public on crime control, arrest and prosecution. This will certainly discourage people from taking laws into their hands, which infringes on the fundamental rights of the victims to life and fair hearing”.
“We also call on the Federal Government to consider compensation to the families of the victims of the killings in Aluu and the mass murder in Mubi”.
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