Students of the University of Benin(UNIBEN), Benin City today went on rampage after thugs demolished the house of the immediate past Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Godwin Osayuki Oshodin.

Student Pulse gathered that the UNBEN Student Union Government and other union activists blocked the institution’s main gate.

Reports and eyewitness comments have it that the thugs, led by a certain Kababa, an alleged loyalist to the state governor,Adams Oshiomole, drew the ire of students after beating up some lecturers.

Buses Burnt Down
Buses Burnt Down

The lecturers were returning from the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Press Centre where they had gone to protest what they called molestation by the Edo State Government,Daily Independent reports.

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“Benin is hot this morning, University of Benin students are rioting, blocking roads, burning cars, buses, and lorries; please, do not go towards that area for now,” another source quoted by the online medium state.

The students burned some buses belonging to Oshiomole and also caused a traffic gridlock.

Security operatives had to be called in to calm the situation.

Reports have it that the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Foluso Adebanjo, who spoke with the SUG president, said Kabaka and his gang will be arrested.

Adebanjo also allegedly ordered that the demolished building be rebuilt within seven days.

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