From CHRIS ANUCHA, Port Harcourt
Soldiers have taken over Aluu community, where four students of the University of Port Harcourt, were murdered in cold blood last Friday.
This is even as residents of Omuokiri are counting losses, following the violent protest, which swept across the area on Tuesday.
The protest was staged by students from the South-South and South- East zones, under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), their anger was over the murder of their colleagues.
When Daily Sun visited Omuokiri community yesterday morning, many police patrol vehicles were stationed at strategic positions or moving round the village. Stern-looking security men, that included men of State Security Service (SSS) were everywhere, to avoid a repeat of the indent of the previous night, where over 30 vehicles and no fewer than seven buildings were set ablaze by the angry students.
But later in the evening, there was deployment of more soldiers to the community, which had already been deserted by the residents to evade arrest.
According to a source, the deployment of more soldiers to the community was to complement the efforts of policemen to forestall more protests and destruction of property.
In the afternoon, policemen from the River State command visited the burrow pit cum dumpsite, the spot where the students met their untimely death. They were seen removing disused tyres and other objects they suspected were used in killing the students.
Five more suspects arrested in the vicinity yesterday afternoon were seen being forced into police patrol vehicle.
Students living in the community were also seen moving out, while many shops and buildings were under lock and key.
Some residents who remained in doors were observed peeping from the windows.
Tension in the area is palpable, while some people who summoned courage to stay back were seen in groups discussing what befell the community in the past five days.
At the University of Port Harcourt, students were seen leaving in large numbers, after the institution was shut down indefinitely on Tuesday by the school authorities, when the students’ protest turned violent.
A large number of them also besieged the banks in the area, trying to withdraw money to enable them to travel home, pending when the closure order would be lifted.
Giving insight into the event of Tuesday, the Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ben Ugwuegbualam, said the police acted swiftly to move the Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Joseph Ajienka, to safety.
He said security agents in the state were also working hard to ensure that the crisis did not escalate beyond what had been witnessed in the past days.
Ugwuegbulam also appealed to members of the public to cooperate with the security agencies to ensure that peace was restored in Aluu and its environs.
Meanwhile, an on-line report raised the fear about the condition of mother of Ugonna Kelechi Obuzor, the second year Geology student who was brutally murdered alongside his friends Lloyd Toku, Chinadikobi Biringa and Tekena Elkanah.
The unconfirmed report said Ugonna’s mother was overwhelmed by the shock of her son’s death.
May God help us
If una no take time I will do smtin oo
It is just the beginning.
Is pity
Men are so wicked. Dat hatless n wicked sodom called Allu nid 2 b rmovd frm map of Nigeria
Such a jungle justice melted out to those poor students and their parents.Is a pity
pls let dis soldiers be moved to maidugri where d bokoharam is bombing their members nd d innocent citizens dan 2 waist dia time in port harcourt unless dey want to c d best part of students militant which dey will not stand.07061577674
i wish d people of maidugri will condemn the unnecesary killings of innocent xtians going on there as being done in ph. human beings has become like fowls.no more value for life.
May their souls rest in peace. God! It was gruesome. I pray that the real perpetrators are fished out and publicly cooked to death. Their parents should also be made to watch them die and denied right of burial. Even if the killed students were guilty of the allegations against them, NO law court anywhere in this world would have prescribed such punishment. I hail the students who demonstrated for their bravery and swift response. The other day a lady was stripped naked, her legs forced wide open while a phone was being forced into her private part. It was posted on the internet. Similar scenes have been recorded in Lagos and Cynthia’s story is still fresh. The sad truth is that many of these victims are innocent, helpless, but promising Nigerians who collide with frustrations of failed governments. Nigeria is fast degenerating…simply sliding down the abyss.
May God in his infinite mercy receive those Martyr,and I also ask God to punish all Aluu community people
For d several hrs d boys were being tortured b4 being murdered why did this kind of police, military nd sss responce not happen? Is it always going to be a case of acton after crime in Nigeria? Wen will it ever end? My heart continues to break over this issue. It is very distressing. Never was ever a place where d Lord is Truly d Shepherd of d ordinary ppl.
The evil that men do leave with them. May the evil doer be rewarded according to their evil did.
I don’t know any of those guys but i just couldn’t eat or sleep well last night after watching that horrific video, i can still see their faces especially chidiaka’s face(when he was hit by that dog that called himself a vigilante member). Here is my verdict. I am tired of hearing stuffs like “13 people have been caught”. The only story that will at least gladden my heart is to see the whole village sacked, the lands should be taken from them and handed over to the family of the victims( I understand Aluu people love lands) and named after those boys as a compensation or better still taken by the government and converted into a cemetery.I want all the faces of those animals pasted all the country for at least a year. Finally, it is now time to see the so called Human right activists pick up this case and clamor for justice without taking as little as a nap until JUSTICE… i mean REAL JUSTICE is done and in public. Their PARENTS must not rest, UNIPORT must not rest, NANS must not rest, MOTHERS must not rest, NIGERIAN YOUTHS must NOT rest,anybody with human blood flowing in his veins and arteries MUST not rest, Mr PRESIDENT i know you have not lost your HUMANITY you MUST not rest too. Let us redeem our Humanity in this part of the world. It must not continue to be a DARK continent……… God I feel like just running out of this country to somewhere ….just anywhere human lives can be held in better esteem. I just can’t stop bleeding in my heart. ALUU community to HELL with all of you,Pathological illiterate land-lovers, go get some education and civility you barbarians, but this time in should be in exile.
This incident has confirmed the dire need for state police, campus police etc. The federal police doesnot have the numerical strenght to police the entire Nigerian federal territory. Please,establish state police and local government police and give them the required police training. This will go a long way in crime control if well managed and reduce unemployment in the society. Most graduates of liberal arts and social sciences will be very useful in building strong police force that will understand humanity.
Nigeria should forget about playing politics with the issue. Just imagine the fact that no policeman or woman showed up for the entire period the Aluu 4 lasted .Is it not a shame and a disgrace to the country called Nigeria?
My dear in this case,we,the people of ds country need orientation on d use and need of handset,we like watching tins happen.does it mean dt on dt fateful day all d onlookers there non has handset or airtime to respone 2 dt situation by calling any nearby police,or does it mean dt all d people there supported d wicked act?
With the Bad behavior of children of today, Universities asre not good to be sighted near any community forb fear of Cultists. If the four boys are not involved in cult related activities, or robbery why should the students not go about therir srike bin a peaceful way rather than being violent as was what we thought they were. With this, I will not back down that there are more robbers in our universities. The villagers took laws into their hands, what will we say about this the uniport boys did. The police should be drafted there for law and order.
Nigerians why killing our selves in our blessed land? Anuu community you are too sacrilageous and why?
Will violence restore those precious lives?
James. If u’r such a criminal attorney, y not go ask Obama if killing Osama brings back the lives of the 9/11 victims. Otherwise, STFU and get ur silly holier-than-thou, self-righteous a*s outta here. U think I’l b a uniport student n wuldnt hav gone beyond peacefully burning scrappy houses and rickety cars?
@ Anthony, ur opinion holds no ground!!! Shud ur broda or son b killed like dat bcos he’s a laptop or blackberry thief or a cultist? Aluu community has no justification killin dos boys, moreover it’s glarin d lads r innocent. May Aluu b wiped out n may d students attack n destory more of d community
We d mothers of this country commesurate with our fellow mothers over the loss of Ugona, Tekena, Lloyd and Chdiaka. No doubt they were to excell, but the evil community in the name of Aluu in PH rivers state cut them short. Nevertheless, they will never die cos they will forever live in our hearts. and in this our country Nigeria, never again will such happen cos when the nemesis that has befallen Allu will start to boomergant, even their gravels will be too hot for them. We therefore decree and declare with one voice that allu who is d borrower, their chiefs and the killers be made to dies d same way- naked beaten in pulp and marched to d same execution ground where their heads and faces will be smitten with woods, planks and stones, thereafter set ablaze. so that day out ever sleeping police will go to sleep as usual and will ignore every call made to this effect. as for d so called mothers of this community who went to sleep so that their husbands and sons can carry out this dastardly act, u will never know peace again. ur sons shall before ur eyes be cut down in d same ma nner for just no cos, ur community will never have any male child that will live past age of 24. those children u slaughtered were betwn 20-24, on their 24th birthday, each male child of your community will die a gruesome death and his carcas fed to d vultures and flies and on that day hearts will bleedd just like the hearts of the real mothers of this country Nigeria are bleeing now and u will find no one to console u. Aluu is a condemned community. Rest in peace our dearest sons, u will forever live in our hearts and u can never be forgotten. Adieu our beautifful sons.
@ Adachukwu Umuanah, May God bless you for the accolade u pour out of ur heart on this Boys…. The innocent blood of these boy will hunt the community till the ended of time. Every year, Four male child of the age between 20 and 24yrs will die horrible death in Aluu. The community have murdered sleep. May GOD ALMIGHTY make Allu a barren land and visit upon the indigines, PLAQUES and CURSES.
My heart goes for the family of the four boys. May GOD comfort and strenghten them and above all give them peace as they bare their loses.
Adachukwu or whatever you call yourself, you are a terribly bad mother(ie if you a mother at all). What will you gain if all the curses you are raining on the children of aluu community come to pass?…..may be u are are witch because God-fearing women don’t like this…..mind you, you are talking for mothers in Nigeria because the mothers in Nigeria that i know are good people and the stand for peace, forgiveness and reconciliation no matter gravity of the sin committed against them…. certainly you dont represent my sweet and lovely mothers in Nigeria…. For the record, am not from aluu community, in fact i have heard the name aluu before but for this recent incident and i have seriously condemned the act but what you saying is totally uncalled for and i tell it will stand in Jesus name (amen)..
Again, corrupt politicians should beware! The day Nigerians are driven to the point where they can’t take it no more, those thriving on corruption will receive worse fate. These are warning signs, just in case they do not realize yet.
The villager just received what they deserved
Now many of them are coming out to talk bullshit(my 850k was stolen,my millions,my car was burnt etc)
Where were they all when those students were brutally killed??v
Why didint all of them dat are good in grammar are claims come out to tell the vigillante the essence of their action
Even if they burnt. 100 houses,,atleast they ve not even killed any aluu son or daughter so the protest is still peaceful
Also all the police men assingned to that police post should be. Properly dealt with for negligence of duty at dia duty pos
Even if you dont have enough bullet,,the litle you have you shoot on d air to scare peolpe away
I belive they work hand in hand with the vigilante so had it been they wanted to stop the vigilante boys ,nthey could have done that…………
May God console the bereaved families.The Bible said that the wages of sin is death.The evil doers deserve death so let them die as well.
Anthony just STFU there Abeg……..those guys were completely innocent of a y cult related activity………….,…..ALUU will go down……….
i think that the idea of having half-educated or uneducated men as traditional leaders isn’t helping matters. if the chief was properly educated i’m sure he would have known better perhaps he would have saved the lifes of those helpless students. may their soul rest in perfect peace!
@ Anthony , Thank you for speaking the truths, many times some people reasom beyond their braib especiallt PUNCH commentators
there is no smoke without, what over you want you will see. you where sent for studies but you chose to put your parent to sham by joining robbers and cultist, why are you complaining. security agent job well done but after the situation if you have arrested any village person please release them be cause what the student they have seen it, others will learn lesson.
PEOPLE LIKE U ARE WICKED. PEOPLE LIKE YOU WILL AND MUST MEET THE SIMILAR SITUATION. I AM SURE YOU ARE FROM ALUU COMMUNITY. ALLU COMMUNITY WILL NEVER SEE PEACE AGAIN. ALLU COMMUNITY WILL BECOME DESERT IN DUE COURSE.
truth is better
As 4 me dnt no wat 2 say bt God take contron in port h.
How i wish am in uni port i would have dealt with the community so that they wil see violence rubbish . If it was ur blood son wil u take him to police to more of burning them to death .
shame to aluu community
Sanou, for ur comments … you are already a cursed person.
Sanou, omo baba and anthony…u three idiots will make a perfect gay trio. Y dont u fools go f**k urselves..u illiterate low-life, low-self esteem, murder justifying, abominable perverts…the fact that non of u or as a matter of fact, anyone in ur suicide-contemplating families cud ever get a university education doesnt mean u shud see those poor boys with promising future as ones deserving 2die. All of u fools will surely fall victims of untimely death as u find this dastardly mishap justifiable..y dont u jack-asses get a life..frm the crap u morons posted here, evn a 3-yr old cud tell u twerps are livin only cuz it’s illegal to kill u…like I said earlier, get a life, and then get a human brain…cuz there’s nothin right in ur left brains, and there’s nothin left in ur right brains…God rest the boys’ souls.
Airlord- abracaya abracaya !!!!!!!!!!… Aluu community, the numbers of indigene residing in dat village are numbered…. Eiye confraternity will strike i swear… if govt like let them park all the solders and police perhaps all the security agency to dat village will we strike, Barrister Okachi, your days are numbered… burning of cars and houses are just a mere child’s play.. heavy masacre will soon take place soon in dat village… dat village will go into extinction insha allah, AIRLORD- abracayaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
D perpetrators of dis great manslaughter should all be progressively apprehended and irrevocably brought to book, for it is brutal and inhumane on the part of those octopus and ignoramus who either by one way or the other played a role in taking innocent lives. It is indeed a kantaqerious act and it is rambunctiously diabolical and lambastable in all ramification. May the gentle souls of the four rest in perfect peace.
May their souls rest in peace.We need more orientation on d use of sell-phone,the act was not done in a thinkle of an eye.It must have lasted for mintues or an hour.even if some one present there could not render any help to rescure them,why not contact police for emegerncy response.at least it shouldn’t have reach to the level of loosing four souls.
Once upon a time will be the case that Omuokiri community, Aluu, Rivers State once existed, and also be the testimony of the great great grand children of this demonic geographic space. I dont care what those boys would have done, No Human deserve to die like this, Common man.. That is crazy….
I wish that Aluu of a town could be leveled, and that only found on pages in the museum that it once existed, and believe me.. That land is curse henceforth, Nothing good will come out of that space again.. RIP the boys..
Nigeria police are untrained why not recover those disused tyres and other objects they suspected were used in killing the students to run DNA test on those arrested in order to detect those responsible for the murder.
This is how it’s done elsewhere the world is no longer in the dark. Nigeria police wake up from deep sleep and meet the 21st century policing.
Watching the video of how these innocent Nigerians were murder in cold blood made my heart to bleed. All that my heart cries for is justice. Nothing should be allowed to keep living in Aluu community. the community should be expunged from this earth because they are barbarians. I pray God will console the families of these lovely sons and every Nigerian that values live. For Aluu community your doom have just started.
Well, whats done is done, the only problem I have with this is that at this modern age 2012, such event can still happen again. I was born and bred in Lagos, and I lived in Surulere axis, I must confess, during my early yrs in school, primary school o, I have seen on the road robbers being chased, lynched and burnt to death, as a growing up kid, I still remember one robber being prepared cement mixture with water for him to drink and then a broom stick put in his penis then burnt afterwards, should I say all those were not regarded gruesome all these years? I was only 7-8yrs old then, now I am 30. This really isn’t surprising to me sincerely, especially the fact that I schooled in OSU Ogun State University, it is regarded as the bloodiest institution in the South-west region, and I rolled with different classes of students, please note that most cult members are used as POLITICAL THUGS and they also indulge in ROBBERY! I am not saying these guys killed in Aluu are robbers but if a police man can go rob overnight with his NPF rifle, then why cant cult members do the same if they are in possession of Man’s worst invention “GUN”? I have seen such happen lots of times in OSU and some of these students which I know in person even graduated with us, the amazing thing is that you can’t even pin point they are robbers as they look better and cleaner than other students. Our typical Aluu community then was Ago-iwoye, now an isolated township, full of very fetish sect, and a place drowned with bloody sacrifices, they always need a human head and so on for sacrifice to their forsaken unproductive land and gods and they will do anything like frequent/unannounced ORO festival which forbids females from setting their eyes on or you get killed, also, they will take the laws into theirs hands like Aluu have done because they don’t like visitors and just hate students. As for me, Nigerians have cried and shouted enough! Please, Boko Haram is still bombing, so the soldiers should be drafted there and help us with BH. We shouldn’t cause more havoc with this issue, Aluu should face the same faith Ago-iwoye is currently facing till date “ISOLATION”, after they unjustly murdered more than 1,000 OSU students in then 2005 Ago crisis. R.I.P the 4 fallen soldiers in Aluu…Aluta Continua…Victoria Acertia!!!
IF NANS is so united let there go to MUBI Adamawa state where Boko Haram killed so many students.
Those guys were no blackberry thieves. It is a frame up. They were there to ask for the money long owed one of them…That the direct info on BB. They guy who is owing framed that the guys from Uniport stole blackberry and laptop and started screaming and shouting….and warranted the killing of the innocent guys. The Aluu community boys are supposed to be skinned alive especially for the killing of that only son like me which has caused the death of Ugonna mother. God will judge every one in this country.
This incident shows how secured Nigerians are. May d souls of the deceased rest in peace, but what happens to the family of the deceased? Two mothers dead already. If the whole community is offered as a burnt offering, it can never replace the destinies shattered. Police seeks support of the community, why didn’t the police support help when the massacre was on for more than three hours. Pls is there no police station in the area or nearby? The DPO of the police station nearby should be detained.
Y is it dat nigerians are killed like chickens in their country,dat’s barbaric nd worrisome.aluu community,unu mere aluu!!!
What a barbaric, primitive, crude, satanic and obnoxious way of exterminating innocent souls! May the land of Aluu from now till eternity remain fruitless, and may all her inhabitants especially those connected to that dastardly act never experience peace in their life both here and in the thereabouts.
May GOD grant all the relations of the victims the fortitudes to bear the unrepairable collateral damage. And the souls of the innocent gentle men and all the faithfuls departed rest in peace. Amen and Amen.
Unbileverble is b/couse of hardship in nigeria may God help us
To me the whole allu community should be annihilated
let one always think of God b/4 doing anything for nothing is new.no body in life that has no stain.let them come and tell the public if they don’t have stain.they should be brought to book to face the law, no bidy send them to kill including police aid them.
Anthony Iloegbunam you are a fool by speaking out that rubbish from your mouth,but don”t worry your own brother,son,or a relatives will soon fail such victim then we shall see how you feel idiot.
I think the A.I.G of that state deserve to resign is duty in shame!
I haven’t seen lots of horror in my life but dis one sure is a record.may Allah(swt) forgive us.
Inallilahi Waina Lilahi rajiun !