UNIUYO students lament over rising insecurity

College students of the University of Uyo (UNIUYO) maintain raised concerns over insecurity in the college’s campuses.

The students said they were continuously robbed all over the neighborhood and loads of now awe to appear in lecture halls especially at evening for awe of being robbed or killed.

College students on the entire utilize the lecture halls at evening to be taught and prepare for the examinations, however this be conscious they call evening class has change into fraught with hazard.

Hope Ibanga, a student of the college, recounted how she and her mates went to appear on the Annex Campus of the college one evening, simplest to be startled by the sounds of gunfire.

Her just true friend, Ebube, confirmed the fable.

“We ran to the pharmacy block, and we met americans running in that direction too. Some said it was a thief, others said it was a neighborhood of cultists,” Ebube said.

“They’d already robbed one lecture corridor and were coming to the keep we were, when a chum called to warn us to leave the college.”

Dark spots

The mini stadium of the college city campus is a pathway for a good deal of students to acquire entry to some lecture venues as properly as their hostels. Nevertheless, it is miles a pleasure direction for robbers and cultists at evening which potential of it is miles on the entire dusky with out streetlights.

One seek for narrated how a meat vendor was robbed by a neighborhood of boys after a football match one evening.

“It was surreal, I heard him expose that the money he made was now no longer his sooner than I ran for my lifestyles,” the quest for who refused to maintain his name in print for awe of victimisation, said.

Some vendors all over the college hostels in the city and annex campuses were unwilling to half their experiences with this reporter, for awe of being attacked afterwards.

“College students are robbed inner and open air the gate, at T-Junction, main to private motels. If one thing else is perchance performed about this, we would tremendously to find it irresistible,” a snack dealer all over the campus said.

Extra lamentations

Though security personnel in all campuses restrict non-students from coming into the college premises after 7p.m. by checking for faculty students’ identification cards, students direct assaults composed happen.

Every as soon as in a while, students are robbed for the length of legit hours.

“I went to pay my dues at one among the banks on campus and some rugged searching boys stopped me and harshly requested me what I had in my pocket. College students were passing and no one could perhaps perhaps attain to my rescue. Those men took my money in astronomical sunlight hours!” said yet some other student who furthermore requested his identification now no longer be disclosed.

On several occasions, some students whinge about their bags going missing for the length of class intervals, while utilizing the library and after a take a look at.

Sandra Silas, a student of the Verbal replace Arts Department lamented that her net containing her paperwork and cards was stolen by a entire stranger while she was ready for lectures.

She said her classmates who assumed she knew the suspect alerted her however it was too late.

“I broke down in tears, which potential of I don’t know the wrongdoer,” she said.

Days later, she said some students in her class recognised the suspect who claimed be a childhood corps member. The wrongdoer was apprehended by the college’s security and later launched.

Why it’s advanced to care for security

Raymond Uduak, head of security on the University of Uyo, accused students of the college of developing the job of securing the campuses more advanced.

“The University of Uyo made it principal for faculty students to return to campus with their ID cards especially at evening however students maintain refused to comply. They would reasonably fight with us each day,” he said.

Mr Uduak defined that if the scholars cooperate the campus could perhaps perhaps be safer for everyone.

He said while some students be conscious the directives of the college, others claim to maintain lost their ID cards.

“College students with lost ID cards can fabricate new ones after filing a grievance however the procedures will lift about a weeks,” he added.