Nigerian lawmakers said they will investigate
the killing of the students.
The House of Representatives says it will investigate
Monday’s shooting at the Nasarawa State University
where soldiers fired live ammunitions at protesting
students, killing four.
Dozens of other students were reportedly injured.
The killings have sparked condemnations, but have
surprisingly, yet to draw an official government
response.
The students, in hundreds, demonstrated the lack of
water and electricity on the school’s Keffi campus,
near Abuja. The scene soon turned violent after
soldiers deployed to contain the restiveness clashed
with the students shooting directly into their fold.
The Nigerian police confirmed the killings but denied
that its officers were responsible for the shootings.
As of late Tuesday, police authorities in Nasarawa
state, said they had limited details of what
happened, but were continuing with investigations.
“The University shooting is still under investigation
and once we are done with the investigation we will
make the findings public,” Michael Ada, the
spokesperson for the police in Nasarawa, said.
The Nigerian Army, whose officers allegedly shot the
students, is yet to comment on the killings.
The institution was subsequently closed by
authorities.
In a resolution, the House mandated its committees
on Army, Internal Security and Police Affairs to
undertake a thorough investigation into the shooting
and report to the House within two weeks.
The lawmakers observed a minute silence in honour
of the slain students.
“The present case is one too many in cases of extra
judicial killings by men of the Police and the Armed
Forces that daily take place in University campuses
and several parts of the country against defenceless,
innocent Students and citizens and is thus very
highly condemnable,” the sponsor of the motion,
Kingsley Chinda, (Rivers State), said

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*In Baba Fela's voice*
"They leave sorrow, tears and Blood...their regular trademark"

Why would a government unleash there kinda undiscipline soldiers no their people.
We still practising democracy? Beats me.