By Marie-Therese Nanlong
Jos – Students of the University of Jos have sent a ‘Save Our Souls’ message to the State Government and all people of goodwill to come to their aid, saying they are starving as the result of the 24-hour curfew imposed in Jos North local government area of Plateau State.
The students lamented that food stuffs at the University gallery have been exhausted and food vendors too have not been seen as a result of the curfew.
They said, even with money, there is nowhere one can buy.
Shop owners in the vicinity have hiked the prices of items beyond what they can afford, a student told our correspondent.
Already, some federal lawmakers from Plateau State have sent buses to evacuate members of their constituencies from the various school hostels.
It was gathered that apart from the food crisis, the students are afraid because as of Sunday, at least three students from the institution were feared killed, while two others are still missing following the skirmish which happened in the town on Saturday.
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It was also gathered that about five other students are receiving treatment in hospitals in the State capital as a result of injuries sustained when hoodlums attacked the students in their hostels.
Neither, Abdullahi Abdullahi who is the institution’s Deputy Registrar, Information and Publications nor the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, ASP Gabriel Uba answered the calls put across to their phone numbers to confirm or debunk the report but a source in the institution confirmed that “there was an attack on students but honestly, I don’t have the details as we speak.”
But a student who did not want to be named called on “the Federal Government, Plateau State government and the Management of the University of Jos” to urgently “send food to students stranded at the hostels or arrange to evacuate them to go and meet their parents.”
Another added, “We are under persistent fear because these people may attack us again. Just yesterday (Monday) some boys were playing football in the Naraguta campus and the miscreants entered to cause problem, thank God for wisdom, the boys had to abandon the ball and run, if they had stood, we would be saying something else by now.”
