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The Senate President of the National Association of Nigeria Students, NANS, Donald Onukuagu, and four other students died on Thursday in a ghastly motor accident in Abia State.
The Vice President, National Affairs of NANS, Ahamed Jibril, said on Thursday that the incident occurred in the early hours of Thursday when the victims were on their way to Uyo to meet with protesting students of the University of Uyo.
The statement announced the other victims of the crash as Japhet Duru, AbdulAzeez Kabiru, Jerry Sorcaaa, and Asa Ejiate of Delta state University.
Five others sustained various degrees of injuries and are currently receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Abia State, Mr. Jibril said.
The student leader claimed that the accident was caused by a barricade put up by officers of the Nigerian Police for stop and search purposes.
Mr. Jibril said the vehicle conveying the student leaders had a head-on collision with another vehicle along Umuhia Road, Abia State, after the police barricade had blocked a section of the road.
The statement also contained a three-day ultimatum to the Inspector General of
Police to provide the police officers responsible for the barricade or face a major NANS action.

Governor Orji visit FMC Umuahia to sympathize with NANS accident victims

Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji has sympathized with Nigerian students over the death of five executives of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) including the Senate President, Donald Onukaogu in a ghastly motor accident that occurred in Ikwuano, Abia State on their way to Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
The Governor who visited victims of the accident at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia where they were receiving treatment described the incident as a calamity and sympathetic.
He cautioned drivers to be careful while on the wheels as well as to maintain a manageable speed, maintaining that many would not have died if they were not on high speed.
The Governor said the incident was disheartening as future leaders of the country have lost their lives through the accident.
Chief Orji used the forum to advise student leaders to embark on negotiation with the authorities before they resort to violence, saying that violence usually ends in catastrophe.
Earlier, while conducting the governor round the doctor on duty at the casualty ward, Dr Kalu said that the accident victims were and the dead were brought in in the morning and were said to have had a head on collision with a lorry at Ikwuano on their way to Uyo, Akwa Ibom state.
He said that apart from the dead, other victims were receiving treatment while some were in stable condition.
In his remark, the coordinator, Zone B of NANS, comrade Chinonso Obasi thanked the governor for sympathizing with them and pledged to be good ambassadors.
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Donald Onukaoguu, the Senate President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and four other students have been killed in a road crash.





The accident scene where NANS leaders died near Owo in Ondo State
The students met their end yesterday on their way to the University of Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State, to intervene in the current crisis rocking that institution. The lone survivor for the accident, who is currently receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, claimed that an illegal road block mounted by the police was responsible for the tragedy.
It would be recalled that yesterday, the police killed several students during a protest organized by students of Engineering at the university. That prompted the decision of the NANS leaders to embark on the urgent trip to Akwa-Ibom.
The Engineering students were protesting against new transport fees and other anti-student policies, including the contentious “No pay, No examination” policy.
Confirming the death of his colleagues this morning, the President of NANS, Yinka Gbadebo, blamed the tragedy on the police. “The police under the current IGP killed nine students within one week; the police action is barbaric and we call for the immediate resignation of the IGP, Mohammed Dikko Abubakar.”
However, it is yet unclear how the incident happened. The survivor of the crash claimed that the police mounted an illegal road block by putting heavy logs and stones on the road and that the unsuspecting students, who were travelling in a NANS bus rammed into the illegal barrier. According to him, the police ran away immediately the accident occurred.
Another source, has, however controverted that account, claiming that a trailer crushed the students’ vehicle.
The Nigerian police have a poor reputation of extra-judicial killings. “We are closing down all campuses in Nigeria and national action will commence immediately,” Mr. Gbadebo threatened.
In a similar occurrence last February, nine students of the Nasarawa State University in Keffi, died in a road accident at Mararaba, Karu Local Government Area as they fled from soldiers who attacked them during a campus protest.
The soldiers ao killed several students on the scene protest .
In July last year, three students’ union leaders were killed on the Owo–Akure Road. They were the Student Union Presidents of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Comrade Awopegba Oluwaseun, Comrade Akintola Abiodun of the Adeyemi College of Education, and Comrade Oyikan Olotu of the Ondo State School of Midwifery, Akure.

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