Blood Money: Five Students Die Scrambling For Akpabio's Stolen Money (Page 2)

Five students were killed and several others reportedly injured during a riot by students who wanted a share of the ₦15 million distributed by the Akwa Ibom State governor Godswill Akpabio. The tragedy occurred yesterday at the Government House Uyo and the Ibom Hall where undergraduate students and unemployed graduates gathered at the instance of the state governor.

The inability of some unemployed graduates, students of the University of Uyo, Uyo City Polytechnic and Akwa Ibom State College of Education to get a share of the money led to a stampede.

Mr. Akpabio had announced a ₦10 million largesse for undergraduate students who were supposed to get their money at the Government House. His running mate in the gubernatorial election, Nsima Ekere, was billed to distribute the rest ₦5 million to unemployed graduates who converged at the Ibom Hall.

Trouble started with the rumour that organisers of the event have taken away ₦4 million out of the ₦10 million given to the students. After waiting for more than four hours for the remaining ₦6 million to be shared, the students started a protest.

The protest turned into a stampede as security agencies tried to remove them from the premises. In the ensuing scramble, gunshots were fired by the police and the protesting students responded by hurling stones at the police officers.

At Ibom Hall, a few fortunate unemployed graduates got ₦1,000 each but the rest had to run away when they heard the gunshots. Matters worsened when the protesting students were joined by others in the adjourning streets of Oron and Wellington Bassey road leading to sporadic shooting which extended into the night.

During a telephone interview, Essien Udoma, the Student Union President of the University of Uyo, confirmed that they were invited by the state governor to collect ₦10 million but people under the aegis of Concerned Students for Gosdwill Akpabio, the organisers, made away with ₦4 million.

He said seven students comprising three each from the Akwa Ibom State College of Education and Uyo City Polytechnic, and one from the University of Uyo have been hospitalised in an undisclosed hospital. He refused to say how many were killed in the riots.

In what amounts to a reaction, the state government has banned all groups from gathering at the Government House for any reason. The commissioner for Information and Social Re-orientation, Aniekan Umanah, said any such rally should be taken to the PDP secretariat.


Why am I thinking that this is some sort of ritual??? Innocent students


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NA WA 4 DAT STUPID MAN CULTIST LIKE HIM IF HE LIKE MAKE HE NO CHANGE 4RM HIM WAY NA 2 DEY CAUSE CONFUSION & KILL ANYBODY WEY WRITE ABT HIM 4 ANY MEDIA MAKE UNA HELP ME GIVE AM MY ADDRESS MAKE HE SHOW SO I GO SHOW AM SAY NINJA BOYS DON DEY BEEF SAY NO JOB IN D COUNTRY AND SOONEST GOD HELP US DAT ITS DOSNT LEAD 2 LIBIA SITUATION CUS UNEMPLOYED YOUTH 4 NIGER DON DEY BEEF & DEY INCREASE EVERY YEAR YET NO JOB.POLITICIAN...............NA WA OH IMAGINE SENATE PRESIDENT & SPEAKER HOUSE OF REP COLLECTING 800MILLION 4 HOUSE ACCOMMODATION 4 A YEAR YET PEOPLE DEY WEY NEVER WORK 4 A DAY IN DIS WE COUNTRY,SINCE WEY I DEY NURSERY SKULLS NA MY TEACHER DON DEY SAY U ARE D FUTURE OF WE COUNTRY NOW I DON GRADUATE WIT HND 5 YEARS AGO YET WE NEVER STILL BECOME FUTURE NA WEN WE DIE,POLITICIAN MAKE UNA DEY FEAR GOD NOW CUSS I DAY GO BE REVOLUTION 4 9JA OH         

You see how uncivilised Nigeria is. Its only in Nigeria that stuff like this happen and nobody seem to wonder why it should happen in the first place. Now, if one may ask - the money being shared is it part of the governor's salary? who's money is it and how is it going to be accounted for? I just wonder how low people in public offices can go out of ignorance. The governor must be one of the most uninformed. What about his advisers (people whose duty it is to advice him on monetary issues), they just stoodby and watch him trash public fund. Now, how about the lives lost in this show of shame, how is he going to validate them? What if that money was invested on infrastructures in the schools for a long term benefit? For whatever reason he decided to mismanage public fund the way he did, he should be ashamed of himself. Hope he does have some dignity left, 'cos he will really need some with which to address his people on the issue of the students death. WHAT A STUPID GOVERNOR.

dis is what am sayin,every 9ija guy suppose 2 know dat any election
won through bribery(sharin of money)is not legitimate. pdp/mafia
occultic party,GOD wil destroy una.