On Sunday, 13 November, 2016 at exactly
11:20 PM, the Bayelsa State College of Health Technology Otuogidi,
Ogbia Town came under siege
.
.
6 heavily armed and masked men invaded
the female hostel A of the college. They operated from room to room
dispossessing their victims of all their valuables, AsbGistNigeria
learnt on Wednesday.
The operation lasted till the next
morning; one is wont to ask, “where were the security men during the
operation, whose responsibility it was to provide skeletal security
services before the arrival of the Nigeria Police Force”?
The marauders robbed, raped and maimed Female students in the hostel without any resistance from the security men.
By the time they left in the morning a
total of 30 females students had been robbed, some raped and 1 student
was maimed by a machete cut at the back of the head and left in her pool
of blood.
By dawn the students came out in their numbers chanting anti- neglection by the school authorities songs.
The provost of the school wasn’t
perturbed when he heard about what happened to the students. It is even
laughable and worrisome that it was the chairman of Ogbia local
government area that had the compassion and courage to address the
students not to take laws into their hands.
For 2 whole days the students shut down
all activities on campus in order to send home their messages that
“enough is enough” of the insensitivity from the school authorities. It
was recanted by some many female students that raping has become a
recurring decimal in the school without any recourse from the
authorities.
After two days of absence the provost
finally decided to address in a non – responsive way. He had to be
reminded by the students before he visited just one of the rape victims
in the hospital in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
It was gathered from the grave vine
that the provost hadly spends 3 productive days in the school he
superintends, he would prefer to attend to his personal business and
hobnobbing with his paymasters and godfathers in Yenagoa, Port-Harcourt,
Abuja and Lagos respectively.
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