Students under the auspices of Joint Campus Committee (JCC), staged a protest on the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway

Students under the auspices of Joint Campus Committee (JCC), staged a protest on the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway

- The students from Nwafor Orizu College of Education Nsugbe, Anambra State, were protesting over alleged extortion, intimidation and harassment by government officials

- The students said they could no longer tolerate the situation where agents inflicted hardship on them

About 1,000 students of Nwafor Orizu College of Education Nsugbe, Anambra state, on Wednesday, August 2, staged a protest on the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway over alleged extortion.

NCTH gathered that both lanes of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway was barricaded by the students under the auspices of Joint Campus Committee (JCC), who were protesting over alleged extortion, intimidation and harassment by officials and agents of the state government.

The protesting students carried placards with various inscriptions, ‘Voice of student must be heard,’ ‘Students say no to intimidation,’ ‘Uju Akudo Must Go,’ and ‘Commissioner for Transport Encouraging Touts.’

The students while disrupting vehicular movement and businesses for several hours, chanted solidarity songs, insisting they would not vacate the road unless they were addressed by the state governor.

NCTH previously reported that five years after the gruesome killing of four students of the University of Port Harcourt in Aluu, a community in Rivers state, the state high court has sentenced three persons to death.

The court presided over by Justice Nyordee has also discharged and acquitted the remaining 4.

According to the Judge, the prosecution failed to prove its case of murder against the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th accused persons beyond every reasonable doubt