Breaking News: UNILAG students protest death of electrocuted colleague

Protesting UNILAG students
Aggrieved students of the University of Lagos
(UNILAG), Akoka, on Wednesday, protested the death
of one of their colleagues, identified as Oluchi
Anekwe, who was yesterday, electrocuted on her way
to her room in Sodeinde Residence,
New Hall on the
campus.
The students who reportedly barricaded the main
gate of the university to express their grievances,
however asked the Vice Chancellor, Professor
Rahman Bello, to intervene in the matter, as it
occurred within the school’s premises.
This is even as they were said to have
prevented vehicles from coming in or going out of
the school, to send home their irk.
Oluchi, a 300-level student of Accounting, who hails
from Aku in Enugu state, was reportedly electrocuted
when a high tension wire fell on her in front of the
Sodeinde hall of residence in the campus.
She was immediately rushed to the Lagos University
Teaching Hospital (LUTH) but was pronounced dead
on arrival.
However, reacting in a memo, President of the
UNILAG Students’ Union Government (SUG), Abiodun
Martins,expressed the students’ displeasure over
‘unavoidable’ incident.
It read:
GREATEST AKOKITES!!!
The University of Lagos Students’ Union regrets to
announce the passing away of one of us, our very
own OLUCHI ANEKWE, a 300 level student of the
department of Accounting.
Oluchi, till her death, was a first class student, and a
very active student in class.
Our condolence goes to her families, relatives and
friends. We pray that God will grant them the
fortitude to bear the loss.
The event that led to her death is in its entirety
avoidable. We hereby call on all concerned
authorities to swing into action so as to prevent
future occurrence.
In this regard, we hereby declare that all academic
and social activities of the school and of the students’
are hereby suspended for today and no unnecessary
sound around the campus in honour of the lost soul.
The entire University of Lagos Students loved her,
but God in His wisdom saw fit to embrace her.
We shall surely miss her. Oluchi, GOODNIGHT.
Signed;
Comrade Abiodun Martins
ULSU President (2014/2015)