ALUU 4: NANS Calls For Release Of Protesting Students From Police Detention

About six weeks after four students of the University of Port Harcourt were murdered by a mob in Aluu community, the National Association of Nigerian Students, has called on the government to release its members, who were arrested during a protest against the incident.

Six weeks after four students of the University of Portharcourt were gruesomely murdered in their prime by a mob in Aluu community, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has urged the state government to release its members who were arrested during a protest where properties worth millions were destroyed in the fracas.

Mr. Jonah Adokie, NANS Director of Action and Mobilisation, South-South and South-East, made the call during the funeral service of one of the slain students, Lloyd Toku Michael on Friday.

Adokie who expressed dissatisfaction with the way and manner the government was handling the killing of their colleagues and continued detention of NANS members in police custody who protested in Aluu, condoled with the families of Lloyd, Chiadika Biringa, Ugonna Obuzor and Friday Elkanam.

He said, "We feel more bereaved than the parents of the slain students and we will continue to stand by the parents of our dead colleagues. We are not happy about the way the matter is being handled because some of our colleagues are in detention for peacefully protesting the killing of our colleagues."