Two students feared killed during water protest

Kayode Idowu

Two students of the Federal College of Education, Technical, Gombe State have been feared killed by security operatives during a violent protest over lack of water, power and other facilities.

A combined team of men of the Nigeria Police and Nigerian Army were called up to contain the protest before the sad incident which resulted in sporadic gunshots.

The breakdown of law and order during the protest made the authorities of the school to immediately close it on Friday morning to avert further violence.

A student who asked not to be named revealed that trouble started around 8:00 pm on Thursday when the students began the protest over the school authorities’ inability to provide water and electricity, a situation that had rendered many of them helpless for some time.

But speaking to newsmen over the incident, the Gombe State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Usman, said around 10:00pm on Thursday, the DPO in charge of Gombe Division, DSP Nyako Musa, received a distressed call after which he took a team of Policemen to the school and found students destroying facilities and threatening to go to the houses of the Provost, Dr. Abbas Gimba and the school’s registrar in the Shongo area.

He said that the students accomplished their threats by destroying some equipment in the house of the provost.

He said a number of the students were arrested and are undergoing screening after men of the 301 Artillery Regiment of the Nigeria Army assisted the Police in calming the situation.

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