The Vice Chancellor, University of Jos, Prof. Tanko Ishaya, says the university lost two of its students to the recent unrest that engulfed parts of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau.
The Vice Chancellor disclosed this during a news conference on Thursday in Jos, saying one of them was hot in the stomach, while the second was macheted to death.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that on March 29, gunmen attacked Angwan Rukuba community, killed some persons and injured many others.
NAN also reports that Angwan Rukuba is a community that houses many staff and students of the university.
The incident prompted the State Government to immediately impose a 48-hour curfew. However, the violence spread to other communities as soon as the curfew was relaxed on April 1.
The vice chancellor also said that four other students and a staff member of the institution were injured and receiving treatment in the hospital.
He identified the deceased as Abel Gershon, a 300-level student of Building Department and Adeyomo Temitope, a 500-level student of Quantity Survey Department.
“Abel Gershon was shot in his stomach on March 29 and was at the Intensive Care Unit of the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH). Unfortunately, he died on Sunday, April 5.
“Adeyomo Temitope left the campus alone on April 1 and found himself in violence on Bauchi Road. He was shot and macheted to death by hoodlums.
“So, we have a total of five members of the university community affected by the incident; four students and a staff member,”he said.
The vice chancellor, sympathised with the immediate families of the deceased and said that those in the hospital were responding to treatment.
Ishaya, maintained that the April 13 resumption date for students was sacrosanct, saying that measures had been taken to beef up security within the university and its immediate host communities.
He insisted that the university was safe, pointing out that none of its campuses had ever been attacked since the inception of crises in Plateau.
He appealed to parents and guardians to ensure that their wards returned to campus to enable them to conclude their first semester examination and commence the second semester.
