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Robbers Raid UNIZIK Hostel, Rape Female Students
No fewer than 17 students sustained various degrees of injury and about nine female students were allegedly raped in the early hours of Friday when a gang of suspected armed robbers raided over thirty off-campus hostels housing students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, UNIZIK Awka.
The robbers who were said to number over 20, stormed Ifite Road Awka where the hostels are located shooting sporadically and robbing from room to room and hostel to hostel at about 12 .30 am Thursday night. The raid lasted for about three hours unchallenged.
A student of the university told reporters that the robbers were heavily armed with guns, axes and machetes going from room to room rapping female students and robbing them of phones, ipads and money.
“We were at the hostel when we had gunshots that lasted for about ten minutes and we ran for our lives because they have not gotten to our own hostel and we had hidden at the back of some shops in the area.”
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“Then we had loud noise of female students shouting for help but nobody could summon the courage to stop them because they are well armed”
“Those that attempted to resist were beaten blue black and many people got injured but I cannot say the number of people affected.”
“One of the female students that was raped is a virgin and they raped her twice and we are holding her because she wants to commit suicide”
The student further narrated that: “The number of hostels in Ifite -Awka is about 300 and including upstairs and bungalows but from what we got after the incident more than seventeen students were injured and that number of those raped may be nine or ten or even twelve”.
It was, however, gathered that a call was placed to Governor Charles Soludo who ordered security operatives to battle the robbers but before they could arrive the operation was almost over.
It will be recalled that four days before the incident suspected robbers have been visiting restaurants and bars robbing students and bar owners at gunpoint between 7pm and 9 pm which has resulted in the restaurants closing early while some students have fled their hostels for fear of attacks.
The Police Public Relations Officer DSP Tochukwu Ikenga confirmed the robbery raid at the UNIZIK hostels, saying:
“Our men on getting wind of the information got to Ifite Awka and were able to battle the criminals.”
No figures of arrest were given by the police as according to him making it public would interrupt investigations.
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