The brutal murder of the Four students of the University of Port
Harcourt has become a major source of worry to many Nigerians who feel
that human lives have no value as far as the country is concerned.
Since the incident, many people have advocated for the immediate arrest
of those behind the heinous act and possibly charge them if found
guilty. While some have continued to advocate for death sentence, others
advocate for life imprisonment.
However, investigation
reveals that none of the four murdered students was involved in robbery
or any kind of pilfering. An anonymous
colleague of the late Llyod and Ugo whom he said were aspiring musicians
and his colleagues.
It was gathered from the source that Ugo and
Lloyd were cousins. Someone was indebted to Ugo around the community and
had vowed not to pay. Ugo who was popularly known as Tipsy had gone to
meet with a fearless University guy (name-withheld) to help them track
the debtor who had been on the run. The guy who was feared by many in
the school had accepted to accompany his friends to get the debtor
tracked down and get his own percentage of the money. They were joined
by their room mate, Chidiaka. On their way to the place, they met one of
their friends, Tekena, who knew nothing about the plan, and he joined,
just for the hype as it’s normal with young boys of juvenile age.
They were actually 5 that got to the debtor’s compound. Unknown to the
other four, the “Confra” guy who was contracted to intimidate the debtor
just to get the money paid went with a gun .When they got to the guy’s
house around 12am, fight ensued, as the debtor confronted them. A next
door neighbour, a woman started shouting on top of her voice, that they
were thieves, attracting other bad boys around the areas, whom they said
were mainly “vickins”, rival cult group of the one on contract. They
swung into action by tipping the vigilantee who confronted the boys,
referring to them as thieves.
At the process of beating the boys, and
while they were trying to explain, the fifth ‘guy’,the cultist brought
out his gun to scare the people, and he escaped, leaving the rest four
at the mercy of the villagers.
The explanation they tried to give
fell on the community’s deaf ears as the people insisted that they must
be killed. Another close friend of Ugo and Lloyd had reacted by calling
on the president to take action against those behind the murder of the
four students. The young man who had pleaded that his identity be kept
secret said: “Mr President those 4 boys who were killed at Aluu near
Uniport were my young friends. I was their mentor. Two of them were
promising rappers and singers. I am forwarding their work ironically
titled “ain’t no love in the city”
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