Lokoja varsity college students threaten to dam freeway over deadly accidents

Protesting college students of Federal College Lokoja, FUL, on Wednesday threatened to dam the Abuja-Lagos Freeway if the federal authorities didn’t cease the incessant killing of their colleagues by vehicles.

Benjamin Timothy, FUL President, Scholar Union Authorities, SUG, who made the risk throughout the procession on the Falele Campus, Lokoja, stated the scholars had been bored with mourning their colleagues.

It could be recalled that 5 of the establishment’s college students had been killed on Monday when an articulated automobile misplaced management and crushed a shuttle bus carrying the scholars.

“The 5 college students killed on Monday have introduced the quantity to 12 college students killed by vehicles in avoidable accidents in only a house of two months,” the SUG President decried.

Timothy stated that the peaceable demonstration staged on Wednesday was a sign to the authorities involved to do one thing drastic in regards to the steady bloodbath of harmless college students alongside the freeway, or they’d barricade it.

“We’ve got given the authorities 72 hours to deal with the incessant killings of our fellow college students, or we file out of the streets in large protest.

“The 5 fellow college students that had been killed on Monday introduced the casualty to 12. We are able to’t preserve folding our arms to see these vehicles carry on killing us like chickens.

“Most of us got here to this college from afar in the hunt for data, and to not die.

“Subsequently, we should rise in opposition to harmful and reckless drivers, who’re out to kill us alongside the Felele Freeway,” he stated.

Based on him, the scholars are but to see any authorities motion towards addressing the matter despite the fact that Gov. Ahmed Ododo of Kogi had pledged to do one thing drastic inside 48 hours’ time.

Additionally talking, Gomina Ahmed-Kabir, Chairman, Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students, NANS, in Kogi, decried the inaction of the federal and state governments over the continual killing of scholars on the freeway.

Responding, retired Commodore Jerry Omodara, the Safety Adviser to Gov. Ododo pleaded with the protesting college students to offer the federal government extra time to deal with the problem, explaining that Ododo had inside lower than 24 hours of Monday’s ugly incident, already constituted a committee to look into the matter.

Based on him, the committee is headed by the Deputy Gov., Joel Salifu, with FUL Vice Chancellor as a member. He defined that the committee would look into methods of stopping the incessant killings of scholars on the freeway.

Mr Samuel Oyedeji, Sector Commander, Federal Highway Security Corps, FRSC, Kogi, expressed unhappiness over the tragic accidents witnessed alongside the freeway.