Emotions are high at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) where students are protesting over the alleged rape of a female student of the institution.
Reports emanating from the institution have it that protesters, mostly female students this morning staged a protest, accusing the Commander in Chief (C-in-C) of the Man O’ War (MOW), FUTO Command, of raping their colleague.
Details of the purported rape incident are sketchy.
Student Pulse however learnt from reports that the victim had gone out at night to relieve herself outside the hostel where a Man 'o War officer approached her.
He told her that the C-in-C wanted to speak with her.
She complied but first told her roommates of about the invitation.
When she returned later, she claimed to have been raped.
Angry students then staged a protest demanding that the allegation be investigated.
This is not the first time that students of the institutions will be protesting an action by the MOW.
In a September 13, 2012 article titled 'On FUTO Man O’ War Vs students' published by The Nation, Chinonye Onwunzo, described the MOW as a 'bully' and 'authorised’ law breaker' feared by the students.
The MOW, as FUTO students believe, is a bully – a loud and overbearing brute who armed with a shaven head and bulging biceps, manipulates hapless Nigerian students for selfish gains while laughing in their face and daring them to resist," Onwunzo wrote
"They see no law enforcer in the MOW; they rather see an ‘authorised’ law breaker. They see no security officer; what they see is a threat. Most times, the cadets will man-handle students and force them to ‘bail’ themselves with certain amount of money.
Two weeks prior to Onwunzo's report, one Ebuka Nwoha, 300-Level Maritime Management Technology, was nearly killed by the group after his lodge mate, Emeka Ibe, a 400-Level student, reported him as a suspect when his laptop got stolen.
The ruckus that followed that singular event nearly pulled the institution apart
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