POLICE in Rivers State have urged the University of
Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) student community and the general public not to
construe the reopening of the university as an end to the trial of
suspects of the Aluu four murders.
Rivers Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ben
Ugwuegbulam, in a statement, yesterday, noted that the clarification had
become necessary following public apprehension as management last
Thursday declared Uniport reopened after being shut to academic
activities following the October 9 students protest over the murder of
their schoolmates in Aluu community.
According to the PPRO, the trial of the suspects was
very much on and more arrests had been made in the police determination
to ensure that the culprits were brought to book working in concert with
the courts.
Ugwuegbulam, who welcomed resumption at the school,
cautioned students to go about their normal activities peacefully,
assuring that security around the institution and its host communities
had been beefed up to keep the peace and forestall breakdown of law and
order.
Sunday Vanguard however noticed that
students were yet to fully embrace the reopening announced three days
earlier as the student population in and around the school was still
scanty with returnees coming into campus in trickles.
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