Fleeing robbers murder IMSU student

Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri

Armed robbers on Friday night murdered a suspected student of Imo State University, Owerri, simply identified as Esther.

The victim who manages a Point of Service business around the university area was killed in front of Ogidi hostel.

Students who spoke to our correspondent on Saturday, said that the criminals had accosted Esther who hailed from Orlu in Imo State while she was going home.

According to one of the sources" the criminals operated on a motorcycle. They confronted the girl while she was going home and attempted to dispossess her but she refused. They stabbed her and took her belongings and fled.

"Students within the area rushed her to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. She bled to death as the cut was deep. This is unfortunate. This was a girl who her neighbours saw while she closed for the day and was heading home. They apparently were monitoring her movement. She was pronounced dead at Imo Specialist Hospital at Umuguma. This is saddening."

The situation led to a pandemonium Saturday morning as students who got wind of the development, attacked motor cycle operators plying the area.

An eye witness told our correspondent that incident of stealing money from PoS operators had increased in the area in recent times.

A member of the Students Alliance, a body that takes care of the welfare of students in the area, speaking anonymously, said that hoodlums had changed their pattern of robbing PoS operators.

He said, " Their recent plan is that some one, probably, one of them will deposit large sum. Ten minutes later, they will strike since the know that the money will still be with the operator.

He added that they usually do such huge lodgment between 6 pm to 8 pm.

As at the time of writing, a detachment of police have been deployed to restore calm.

The spokesperson for the police in the state, Michael Abattam, had yet to respond to an inquary concerning the incident.

OyigboUpdate:
Ipob members also known as unknown gunmen

Offpointng:
Anything wey go make me waka pass SE Ya Allah make I no see am

esnbrutality:
Good..

Abeg,hustle make them leave una!!

So you go enjoy, ya Nigeria, with Yaribba people.

plaindealer:
They cried, shed crocodile tears, do propaganda and wailed endlessly over the LP woman in Kaduna, but never word, tears or concern when it comes to the innocent Igbo people they slaughter in igboland every day like this young woman.

They are not all over this thread because this did not happen in Kaduna or elsewhere outside igboland..

See demented these people are?

Sad

Offpointng:


No Y'all should leave SW and go back to ur region where you can keep killing yourselves with little or no interference and anyone giving a fvck